4,000 DEAD US SOLDIERS...FOUR FUCKING THOUSAND MOTHERFUCKER (that's just the ones who died "in theatre" OH GODDAMNIT TO HELLFIRE ON A STICK, don't you just FUCKING HATE that term!? Like it's a fucking Shakespeare or some shit?!?!?! NO COCKSUCKER, THIS IS ***REAL***!!!!) FOR MR. 19%, Prick Dick Cheney and the rest of the BU$Hitler CRIME FAMILY'S *ILLEGAL* WAR/OCCUPATION OF IRAQ FOR OIL.
(And does ANYONE report ANYTHING from Afghanistan anymore?!?!!?)
Notice something!? The number KEEPS GOING UP! And it will CONTINUE TO GO UP...until this fucking BULLSHIT finally comes to a long overdue end. Beyond belief that it was even allowed to happen in the FIRST FUCKING PLACE.
Just for the record, I am going to keep posting posts like this UNTIL THIS BULLSHIT ILLEGAL OCCUPATION COMES TO ITS MUCH OVERDUE END.
Just what in the FUCK is it going to take America?!?!?!?!?!?!? 5,000?! 10,000?! 40,000?!
Oh I'm sorry to bother you, American Fucking Idol is on and you just got a call on your goddamn iFoney!!!
Republitards and their culture of life?????????????????????
Monday, March 24, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Time for BAD news (what else is new) and SOME good news
Bad first:
HEART DEVICES CAN BE HACKED
FIREFIGHTER DIED FROM BRAIN EATING AMOEBA
HOUSE FAILS TO OVERTURN ANTI TORTURE VETO
And now the LITTLE good:
JUDGE LIKELY TO ORDER CHENEY
HEART DEVICES CAN BE HACKED
FIREFIGHTER DIED FROM BRAIN EATING AMOEBA
HOUSE FAILS TO OVERTURN ANTI TORTURE VETO
And now the LITTLE good:
JUDGE LIKELY TO ORDER CHENEY
| PUERTO RICO BECOMES PLAYER IN DEM PRIMARY |
| FLORIDA DEMOCRATS PROPOSE MAIL IN PLAN |
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
A New Record Low for the Dollar
I will interpret:
We are SCREWED, GLUED and TATOOED
This is ALL Bush and the Republican Congress, under the direction of the neocons and Powers that Be
Corporate America
Halliburten and Co
Military Industrial Complex
Parmacutical Industry
World Bank
Federal Reserve.
.
The US dollar took centre stage this past week by plumbing new depths. The US Dollar Index made a record low, as we can see on the following chart.
I first presented the arrow on the above chart in my alert on November 11, 2007, and made the following observation. "When taken together, the eerie calm as the dollar collapses and the arrow in the above chart pointing to the building downside momentum suggest that the dollar is nowhere near its final low." That eerie calm remains. Few people are yet facing the facts.
For example, this past week I heard a business television reporter make the following ridiculous comment: "The dollar is at an all-time low because the European Central Bank doesn't want to cut interest rates." It is of course easy to blame others for the dollar's problems, rather than those truly culpable, namely, the spendthrifts in Washington, D.C. and the apparatchiks in the Federal Reserve who provide the politicians with all the dollars they want.
Another example of ignoring reality are the misguided media reports that state rising commodity prices are due to crop shortages. In reality, a tight supply of wheat cannot possibly explain why the prices of nearly all commodities are rising. It's not because there are too few commodities, but rather, too many dollars.
The Federal Reserve stopped reporting M3, the total quantity of dollars, in March 2006. But thanks to the work of John Williams of www.shadowstats.com we know how rapidly M3 is growing. The red line on the following chart shows the growth in M3 since the Fed stopped making that data available. The Fed obviously did not want us to know how many dollars they would be creating, which is now approaching record rates of growth.
The dollar is falling off the edge of a cliff, and for good reason. I continue to believe that the possibility of a dollar collapse is both real and imminent, and the probability of this outcome for the dollar increases with each new high in the precious metals - like those achieved this past week. Ominously for the dollar, the following charts indicate that more new highs in gold and silver look probable in the weeks immediately ahead.
*****
by James Turk
Copyright © 2007 by James Turk. All rights reserved.
NY Decay can blow me
"Imagine a deathrock event without any crappy Christian Death songs being played. Imagine a deathrock party without the regular boring tunes from bands such as Bauhaus, and Cinema Strange. Imagine a deathrock party where two DJ's play Dandi Wind. Imagine a deathrock party where two DJ's are fighting about who gets to play Din Glorious."
- Dan's LJ
What pure and complete rotting bullshit! And this is from one of the editors of Drop Dead magazine!!!!!!!!!! Go fuck yourselves you motherfuckers, you sure do seem like you need a good screw! That's like saying "Imagine a country event without any crappy Johnny Cash songs being played. Imagine a rap event without the regular boring tunes from bands like Public Enemy and RUN DMC"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah and they're not going to have ANY traditional goth acts or post punk at the next drop dead. Well good for you! Where do you plan on holding this shit!? Penguin Point, Antarctica?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!!?!?!? No WONDER that BITCH Polina had DD in Pargue last year...EVERYONE IN AMERICA IS ON TO HER FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is WRONG with people?!?!?!?
- Dan's LJ
What pure and complete rotting bullshit! And this is from one of the editors of Drop Dead magazine!!!!!!!!!! Go fuck yourselves you motherfuckers, you sure do seem like you need a good screw! That's like saying "Imagine a country event without any crappy Johnny Cash songs being played. Imagine a rap event without the regular boring tunes from bands like Public Enemy and RUN DMC"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah and they're not going to have ANY traditional goth acts or post punk at the next drop dead. Well good for you! Where do you plan on holding this shit!? Penguin Point, Antarctica?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!!?!?!? No WONDER that BITCH Polina had DD in Pargue last year...EVERYONE IN AMERICA IS ON TO HER FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is WRONG with people?!?!?!?
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
For the LAST TIME: NO Saddam / Al CIA-duh link!!!!!!!!!
WE ATTACKED THE WRONG COUNTRY
WE INVADED AND DESTROYED AN INNOCENT NATION
WE OCCUPY A COUNTRY THAT WE HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING IN
WE COMMITTED WAR CRIMES
Now, neocons, Repubs, ultra-right loonies Nazis Fascists and traitors....
THE CASE IS CLOSED.
BUSH IS A WAR CRIMINAL AND WE ALL ARE ACCOMPLICES
OUR ONLY CHOICE IS TO REPAIR THE COUNTRY AFTER WE GET THE HELL OUT
AND IMPEACH BUSH, THEN SEND HIM CHAINED TO THE HAGUE.
ANY questions?
Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam, al Qaida
By Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers Mon Mar 10, 7:08 PM ET
WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network. 
The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release later this week, did confirm that Saddam's regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Middle East , U.S. officials told McClatchy . However, his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime.
The new study of the Iraqi regime's archives found no documents indicating a "direct operational link" between Hussein's Iraq and al Qaida before the invasion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the report.
He and others spoke to McClatchy on condition of anonymity because the study isn't due to be shared with Congress and released before Wednesday.
President Bush and his aides used Saddam's alleged relationship with al Qaida, along with Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction, as arguments for invading Iraq after the September 11, 2001 , terrorist attacks.
Then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld claimed in September 2002 that the United States had "bulletproof" evidence of cooperation between the radical Islamist terror group and Saddam's secular dictatorship.
Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell cited multiple linkages between Saddam and al Qaida in a watershed February 2003 speech to the United Nations Security Council to build international support for the invasion. Almost every one of the examples Powell cited turned out to be based on bogus or misinterpreted intelligence.
As recently as last July, Bush tried to tie al Qaida to the ongoing violence in Iraq . "The same people that attacked us on September the 11th is a crowd that is now bombing people, killing innocent men, women and children, many of whom are Muslims," he said.
The new study, entitled "Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents", was essentially completed last year and has been undergoing what one U.S. intelligence official described as a "painful" declassification review.
It was produced by a federally-funded think tank, the Institute for Defense Analyses , under contract to the Norfolk, Va .-based U.S. Joint Forces Command.
Spokesmen for the Joint Forces Command declined to comment until the report is released. One of the report's authors, Kevin Woods , also declined to comment.
The issue of al Qaida in Iraq already has played a role in the 2008 presidential campaign.
Sen. John McCain , the presumptive GOP nominee, mocked Sen. Barack Obama , D-Ill, recently for saying that he'd keep some U.S. troops in Iraq if al Qaida established a base there.
"I have some news. Al Qaida is in Iraq ," McCain told supporters. Obama retorted that, "There was no such thing as al Qaida in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade." (In fact, al Qaida in Iraq didn't emerge until 2004, a year after the invasion.)
The new study appears destined to be used by both critics and supporters of Bush's decision to invade Iraq to advance their own familiar arguments.
While the documents reveal no Saddam-al Qaida links, they do show that Saddam and his underlings were willing to use terrorism against enemies of the regime and had ties to regional and global terrorist groups, the officials said.
However, the U.S. intelligence official, who's read the full report, played down the prospect of any major new revelations, saying, "I don't think there's any surprises there."
Saddam, whose regime was relentlessly secular, was wary of Islamic extremist groups such as al Qaida, although like many other Arab leaders, he gave some financial support to Palestinian groups that sponsored terrorism against Israel .
According to the State Department's annual report on global terrorism for 2002— the last before the Iraq invasion— Saddam supported the militant Islamic group Hamas in Gaza , Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command , a radical, Syrian-based terrorist group.
Saddam also hosted Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal , although the Abu Nidal Organization was more active when he lived in Libya and he was murdered in Baghdad in August 2002 , possibly on Saddam's orders.
An earlier study based on the captured Iraqi documents, released by the Joint Forces Command in March 2006 , found that a militia Saddam formed after the 1991 Persian Gulf war, the Fedayeen Saddam, planned assassinations and bombings against his enemies. Those included Iraqi exiles and opponents in Iraq's Kurdish and Shiite communities.
Other documents indicate that the Fedayeen Saddam opened paramilitary training camps that, starting in 1998, hosted "Arab volunteers" from outside of Iraq . What happened to the non-Iraqi volunteers is unknown, however, according to the earlier study.
The new Pentagon study isn't the first to refute earlier administration contentions about Saddam and al Qaida.
A September 2006 report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Saddam was "distrustful of al Qaida and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al Qaida to provide material or operational support."
The Senate report, citing an FBI debriefing of a senior Iraqi spy, Faruq Hijazi , said that Saddam turned down a request for assistance by bin Laden which he made at a 1995 meeting in Sudan with an Iraqi operative.
ON THE WEB:
Earlier report from the Iraqi Perspectives Project:
Monday, March 10, 2008
Spitzer Could Be Gone - But Not Bush
Somebody posted this to my yahoogroup, and it is SPOT ON! Enjoy, and PASS IT ON!!!
Today Eliot Spitzer (at least according to some media sources) resigned or temporarily suspended his work as the Governor of New York State over questions of private personal morality. No one lost their life, no one was defrauded of State funds no one suffered life long injuries. As far as I'm concerned his alleged involvement with a "prostitution ring" is a matter between him and his family.
Meanwhile in DC we have a President and Vice President who knowingly lied us into two wars that has led to the loss of over one million lives, destroyed the physical and mental well being of almost all the soldiers of fought in this theater (re PTSD etc) and has through the use of depleted uranium contributed to an environmental disaster that will last for literally centuries. Additionally, Bush knowingly suppressed the provision of needed supplies to the victims of Katrina thereby causing an untold amount of suffering and death.
Furthermore, Bush's budgets and tax cuts for the rich have ravaged poor and working class families causing additional suffering. But Bush continues to (mis)govern relishing the prospect of a cozy Texas sized retirement.
Something is wrong with a society that demands an elected officials head for personal activities but will forgive another official for grave and illegal transgressions of his Elective responsibilities.
Today Eliot Spitzer (at least according to some media sources) resigned or temporarily suspended his work as the Governor of New York State over questions of private personal morality. No one lost their life, no one was defrauded of State funds no one suffered life long injuries. As far as I'm concerned his alleged involvement with a "prostitution ring" is a matter between him and his family.
Meanwhile in DC we have a President and Vice President who knowingly lied us into two wars that has led to the loss of over one million lives, destroyed the physical and mental well being of almost all the soldiers of fought in this theater (re PTSD etc) and has through the use of depleted uranium contributed to an environmental disaster that will last for literally centuries. Additionally, Bush knowingly suppressed the provision of needed supplies to the victims of Katrina thereby causing an untold amount of suffering and death.
Furthermore, Bush's budgets and tax cuts for the rich have ravaged poor and working class families causing additional suffering. But Bush continues to (mis)govern relishing the prospect of a cozy Texas sized retirement.
Something is wrong with a society that demands an elected officials head for personal activities but will forgive another official for grave and illegal transgressions of his Elective responsibilities.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
McCain suck lobbyists's assholes!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh please BLOW ME! "STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS"?!?!?! My ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I am SICK to DEATH of this Hillary VS. Obama BITCH-FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!
HEY YOU TWO! STOP IT!!!!!!!!!! GROW THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STOP THIS SHIT, AND FOCUS ON McCAIN, WHO IS A NAZI LITTLE SACK OF TURD, WHO FORFEITED HIS GODDAMN "WAR HERO" STATUS BY SELLING OUT AND SUCKING BU$Hitler's ASSHOLE AND SUPPORTING TORTURE, which, EQUALS TERRORIST...but shit, what the fuck ELSE is NEW?! ALL RepubliKKKans ARE TERRORIST...FACT.
END OF STORY! CASE FUCKING CLOSED, THERE *WILL* BE NO MORE DEBATE ON THIS MATTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I am SICK to DEATH of this Hillary VS. Obama BITCH-FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!
HEY YOU TWO! STOP IT!!!!!!!!!! GROW THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STOP THIS SHIT, AND FOCUS ON McCAIN, WHO IS A NAZI LITTLE SACK OF TURD, WHO FORFEITED HIS GODDAMN "WAR HERO" STATUS BY SELLING OUT AND SUCKING BU$Hitler's ASSHOLE AND SUPPORTING TORTURE, which, EQUALS TERRORIST...but shit, what the fuck ELSE is NEW?! ALL RepubliKKKans ARE TERRORIST...FACT.
END OF STORY! CASE FUCKING CLOSED, THERE *WILL* BE NO MORE DEBATE ON THIS MATTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah AND
Feel MORE than free, if ya got a myspace profile, to add these:
Myspace.com/ThomHartmann
Myspace.com/Mike_Malloy
Myspace.com/Lu666Cifer
And I thank you in advance!!!
Myspace.com/ThomHartmann
Myspace.com/Mike_Malloy
Myspace.com/Lu666Cifer
And I thank you in advance!!!
From the NO SHIT file
New FBI Privacy Violations Confirmed
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080305/D8V7C6T06.html
Mar 5, 10:56 AM (ET)
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080305/D8V7C6T06.html
Mar 5, 10:56 AM (ET)
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Director Robert Mueller says an upcoming Justice Department report will show the bureau improperly used national security letters to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations.
Mueller says the report focuses on national security letters issued only in 2006 - a year before the FBI enacted sweeping new reforms to prevent future lapses.
Mueller's comments Wednesday morning in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee came just days before the Justice Department's inspector general is scheduled to release the follow-up to a similar audit in 2007.
Last year's report found that over a three-year period, the FBI had demanded personal data on people from banks, telephone and Internet providers and credit bureaus without official authorization and in non-emergency circumstances.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Time for ANOTHER rant!
I'm back like a vertebra! (Sic?!) Break 'em off sumptin proper...bust a cap if you rat to a copper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I've been doing all hu-person-beingly (isn't that BETTER than saying huMANly?!) stuff I can do offline to subvert this anti-American cocksucker Nazi asshole BU$Hitler "government of for and by We The People" which is more like OF FOR AND BY THE CORPORATE SLIME! Which reminds me: HI NSA, OH YOU KNOW YOU WANNA LICK IT BABY! LICK IT BABY! WORK THAT ASS BABY! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT HARD! LICK IT BABY! LICK IT BABY! WORK THAT ASS BABY! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT HARD! LICK IT BABY! LICK IT BABY! WORK THAT ASS BABY! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT HARD! LICK IT BABY! LICK IT BABY! WORK THAT ASS BABY! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT HARD!
Let THEM enjoy THAT shit on their computer! ANALize THIS!
OH HEY AND HOW ABOUT THAT 9 TO 10 GUN OWNERSHIP RATIO IN THIS COUNTRY! TAKE YOU MARTIAL LAW AND SIT ON IT AND ROTATE NICE AND HARD!!!!!!!! Y'all seem like ya could use a good fuck!!!!!!!!!!!! Hell, one good orgasm WOULD PROBABLY KILL ANY CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gee, I don't know how all those local road signs have STOP THE WAR, IMPEACH BUSH, FIRE THE REPUBLICANS, etc. stickers on them...*INNOCENT WHISTLE* and that is just among other things I've been up to. "Now I sure don't know how them thar 7 leaf plant got growin' over there..." Well, I transplanted like 40 pine trees...holy shit piss, what a real pain in the ASS in this dog piss hot "winter"!!!!
BUT THERE'S NO GLOBAL WARMING...OH MY ASS THERE ISN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How the fuck is it I find one after another pine tree seedling approx. 1 to 2 inches tall growing where I walk over and mow over and whatever, but, where I chuck the pine cones too in the overgrowth, NOT A GODDAMN ONE GROWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Oh yeah and TALK TO PEOPLE! As Thom Hartmann says best "DEMOCRACY BEGINS WITH YOU, TAG! YOU'RE IT!"
Just talk to random people you run into. DON'T be rude. That produces SHIT. DUH! Just state that you are not into this BULLSHIT NAZI REGIME and where you're coming from, listen to their view, and go from there. FIND COMMON GROUND! Oh gee, WHAT A CONCEPT!!!!!!!!!!!! Sarcasm alert! Anyways, just speak up LOUD! Do it in PUBLIC places! And if ANYONE give you shit, well feel MORE than FREE to lay out the FACTS, and if they try to shut you up, HELLO! FIRST AMENDMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It ALWAYS amazes me how CONS who are faced with me saying "WELL IF LIBERALS' POINT OF VIEW IS SOOOO BAD, THEN THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON YOU! YOU SHOW AND TELL ME WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT!" and to date, they all go "Uh, Uh, THEY UH, LOVE TERRAISTS, AND UH, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, AND LOVE URM, SOCIALISM (like THAT's a BAD thing?! FUCK YOU!) AND UH, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh..." Well...just like Ann The Mann, the fact-lacking cons can talk all the shit you can dish out until they are blue in the face (much like they are in their bizzalls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), BUT, then it they are pressed to DISproving anything liberal, you haven't even got dog piss jones! And when they make their feeble pathetic attempts to promote CON values, they come up JUST AS EMPTY HANDED!!!!!!!!!!!! Lesson learned: PUT THESE FUCKING PEOPLE ON THE SPOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They CANNOT WIN!!!!!!!!! They think that just because THEY have money, power, influence, etc. they are exempt from justifying their completely INSANE polices, WELL SORRY BITCH, WE DO NOT ROLL THAT WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What you get instead is the VAST majority of Americans rolling over your asses with the steam-roller from HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, I've been out and about...and within the last month & a half, I've only seen exactly ONE car with a PRO-BUSH sticker on it!!!!!!!!!!!! Mind you, my turf is the NOT SO LIBERAL CENTRAL FLOW-REE-DUH area...I mean, if you think of places like YEEHAW JUNCTION or OKEECHOBEE or VERO BEACH or FT. PIERCE, etc., as PROGRESSIVE, then, well, THANK YOU! It's nice to not be alone!!!!!!!!!! But doesn't THAT tell THE ENTIRE WORLD something?!?!?! If THIS area says FUCK YOU to BU$Hitler and his Crime Family...THEN IT IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And UP YOUR RETARDED ASS to McCain supporters!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who ARE these dildos anyways?!?!
THIS IS THE DAWN OF THE NEW SATANIC ERA OF PROGRESS FOR SCIENCE, LIBERTY, LIBERALISM, AND ABOVE ALL:
SEX DRUGS AND ROCK N ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if you don't like this shit, then what does that say about LIFE, LIBERTY & THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I've been doing all hu-person-beingly (isn't that BETTER than saying huMANly?!) stuff I can do offline to subvert this anti-American cocksucker Nazi asshole BU$Hitler "government of for and by We The People" which is more like OF FOR AND BY THE CORPORATE SLIME! Which reminds me: HI NSA, OH YOU KNOW YOU WANNA LICK IT BABY! LICK IT BABY! WORK THAT ASS BABY! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT HARD! LICK IT BABY! LICK IT BABY! WORK THAT ASS BABY! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT HARD! LICK IT BABY! LICK IT BABY! WORK THAT ASS BABY! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT HARD! LICK IT BABY! LICK IT BABY! WORK THAT ASS BABY! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT HARD!
Let THEM enjoy THAT shit on their computer! ANALize THIS!
OH HEY AND HOW ABOUT THAT 9 TO 10 GUN OWNERSHIP RATIO IN THIS COUNTRY! TAKE YOU MARTIAL LAW AND SIT ON IT AND ROTATE NICE AND HARD!!!!!!!! Y'all seem like ya could use a good fuck!!!!!!!!!!!! Hell, one good orgasm WOULD PROBABLY KILL ANY CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gee, I don't know how all those local road signs have STOP THE WAR, IMPEACH BUSH, FIRE THE REPUBLICANS, etc. stickers on them...*INNOCENT WHISTLE* and that is just among other things I've been up to. "Now I sure don't know how them thar 7 leaf plant got growin' over there..." Well, I transplanted like 40 pine trees...holy shit piss, what a real pain in the ASS in this dog piss hot "winter"!!!!
BUT THERE'S NO GLOBAL WARMING...OH MY ASS THERE ISN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How the fuck is it I find one after another pine tree seedling approx. 1 to 2 inches tall growing where I walk over and mow over and whatever, but, where I chuck the pine cones too in the overgrowth, NOT A GODDAMN ONE GROWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Oh yeah and TALK TO PEOPLE! As Thom Hartmann says best "DEMOCRACY BEGINS WITH YOU, TAG! YOU'RE IT!"
Just talk to random people you run into. DON'T be rude. That produces SHIT. DUH! Just state that you are not into this BULLSHIT NAZI REGIME and where you're coming from, listen to their view, and go from there. FIND COMMON GROUND! Oh gee, WHAT A CONCEPT!!!!!!!!!!!! Sarcasm alert! Anyways, just speak up LOUD! Do it in PUBLIC places! And if ANYONE give you shit, well feel MORE than FREE to lay out the FACTS, and if they try to shut you up, HELLO! FIRST AMENDMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It ALWAYS amazes me how CONS who are faced with me saying "WELL IF LIBERALS' POINT OF VIEW IS SOOOO BAD, THEN THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON YOU! YOU SHOW AND TELL ME WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT!" and to date, they all go "Uh, Uh, THEY UH, LOVE TERRAISTS, AND UH, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, AND LOVE URM, SOCIALISM (like THAT's a BAD thing?! FUCK YOU!) AND UH, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh..." Well...just like Ann The Mann, the fact-lacking cons can talk all the shit you can dish out until they are blue in the face (much like they are in their bizzalls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), BUT, then it they are pressed to DISproving anything liberal, you haven't even got dog piss jones! And when they make their feeble pathetic attempts to promote CON values, they come up JUST AS EMPTY HANDED!!!!!!!!!!!! Lesson learned: PUT THESE FUCKING PEOPLE ON THE SPOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They CANNOT WIN!!!!!!!!! They think that just because THEY have money, power, influence, etc. they are exempt from justifying their completely INSANE polices, WELL SORRY BITCH, WE DO NOT ROLL THAT WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What you get instead is the VAST majority of Americans rolling over your asses with the steam-roller from HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, I've been out and about...and within the last month & a half, I've only seen exactly ONE car with a PRO-BUSH sticker on it!!!!!!!!!!!! Mind you, my turf is the NOT SO LIBERAL CENTRAL FLOW-REE-DUH area...I mean, if you think of places like YEEHAW JUNCTION or OKEECHOBEE or VERO BEACH or FT. PIERCE, etc., as PROGRESSIVE, then, well, THANK YOU! It's nice to not be alone!!!!!!!!!! But doesn't THAT tell THE ENTIRE WORLD something?!?!?! If THIS area says FUCK YOU to BU$Hitler and his Crime Family...THEN IT IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And UP YOUR RETARDED ASS to McCain supporters!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who ARE these dildos anyways?!?!
THIS IS THE DAWN OF THE NEW SATANIC ERA OF PROGRESS FOR SCIENCE, LIBERTY, LIBERALISM, AND ABOVE ALL:
SEX DRUGS AND ROCK N ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if you don't like this shit, then what does that say about LIFE, LIBERTY & THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, March 3, 2008
Halliburton Confirms Concentration Camps Already Constructed
Halliburton Confirms Concentration Camps Already ConstructedOn February 17, 2006, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of the harm being done to the country?s security, not just by the enemy, but also by what he called ?news informers? who needed to be combated in ?a contest of wills.? In 2002 Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his desire to see camps for U.S. citizens deemed to be ?enemy combatants.? A Defense Department document, entitled the ?Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support,? has set out a military strategy against terrorism that envisions an ?active, layered defense? both inside and outside U.S. territory. In the document, the Pentagon pledges to ?transform U.S. military forces to execute homeland defense missions in the . . . U.S. homeland.? The strategy calls for increased military reconnaissance and surveillance. The Washington Post reported on February 15, 2006 that the National Counterterrorism Center?s (NCTC) central repository holds the names of 325,000 terrorist suspects, a fourfold increase since fall of 2003. A Pentagon official said the Counterintelligence Field Activity?s TALON program has amassed files on antiwar protesters. Shortly after Bush orchestrated 9/11, he issued "Military Order Number One", which empowered him to detain any noncitizen as an international terrorist or enemy combatant. Today that order extends to U.S. citizens as well. | |||
| Halliburton subsidiary "KBR has been awarded a contract announced by the Department of Homeland Security?s United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) component. The Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contingency contract is to support ICE facilities and has a maximum total value of $385 million over a five year term. The contract provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the United States, or to support the rapid development of new programs". See Source Document on Halliburton Site or page 1, & 5 below Why exactly are prisons being built for "the rapid development of new programs". Halliburton's company site confirms that the government is engaged in a massive construction and preparation exercise to build concentration camps and prisoner processing facilities in the United States. This is particularity astonishing and disturbing considering that the U.S. already incarcerates more orders of magnitude more people than any other nation, about on-par with U.S.S.R. at the height of Stalin's era. The contract of the Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build immigrant detention facilities is part of a longer-term Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of ?all removable aliens? and ?potential terrorists.? In the 1980s Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld discussed similar emergency detention powers as part of a super-secret program of planning for what was euphemistically called ?Continuity of Government? (COG). These men planned for suspension of the Constitution, not just after nuclear attack, but for any ?national security emergency,? which they vaguely defined in Executive Order 12656 of 1988. Over 800 concentration camps are reported throughout the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive U.S. Prisoners who disagree with the government. The concentration camps are all staffed and manned by full-time guards, however, they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) when Martial Law is implemented in the United States (at the stroke of a Presidential pen and the Attorney General's signature on a warrant). The camps have railroad facilities as well as roads leading to and from the detention facilities, many have airports. Like Auschwitz, some of the camps have airtight buildings and furnaces. The majority of the camps can each house a population of 20,000 prisoners. Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a massive "mental health" facility and can hold approximately 2 million people. Following the Halliburton subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown and Root) announcement on Jan. 24 that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps, two weeks later, on Feb. 6, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that the Fiscal Year 2007 federal budget would allocate over $400 million to add 6,700 additional detention beds (an increase of 32 percent over 2006. What is interesting in the Homeland Security plan is that each concrete prison bed costs $60,000 per bed! Observing these concentration camps and general jail and prison facilities throughout the U.S., the Homeland Security plan is clearly buffered to build significantly more than 6,700 additional beds. | This is for real! Maps Indicating Locations of Concentration Camps Throughout U.S. Click on maps for list of locations and videos. See Army Regulation 210?35 Civilian Inmate Labor Program: Confirming the government and the Army's plans for U.S. based Concentration Camps: Former Inspector for Joint Chiefs of Staff explains how U.S. Citizens will be rounded up and sent to death camps. The plans and camps mirror Hitler's SS plans and implementations, correlating with the strong ties between the Bush's and Hitler. Military Commissions Act In yet another astonishingly treasonous act the U.S. administration has eliminated yet another key check to control out of control government, the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. The Posse Comitatus Act which abolished the use of the U.S. military against our own citizens since 1878 has also been wiped out. This act which protected citizens through WWI, WWII, the Vietnam War, the Korean War and the Great Depression is considered by the current administration as unnecessary and a hindrance to the government's ability to prosecute inside the U.S. This is particularly chilling read more at this link: Military vs. Citizens See March 24, 1997, letter from Congressman Bill Hefner confirming the U.S. Concentration Camps: Concentration Camp Rail Car: | ||
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The Homeland Security $400 million allocation is more than a four-fold increase over the FY 2006 budget, which provided $90 million for the same purpose. Both the contract and the budget allocation are in partial fulfillment of an ambitious 10-year Homeland Security strategic plan, code-named ENDGAME, authorized in 2003. According to a 49-page Homeland Security document on the plan, ENDGAME expands "a mission first articulated in the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798." Its goal is the capability to "remove all removable aliens," including "illegal economic migrants, aliens who have committed criminal acts, asylum-seekers (required to be retained by law) or potential terrorists." The government's definition of an enemy combatant covers almost any individual who promotes the rudimentary rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Readiness Exercise 1984 - Rex 84 Texas Congressman Henry Gonzales revealed many years ago plans of Rex 84 which former colonel Ollie North helped design. The late Representative Jack Brooks also of Texas brought this concentration camp and internment program as well as the Continuity of Government Program to light during the Iran Contra hearing. The chairman refused to let North even talk about them in open hearings under ?National Security.? Mr. Gonzales stated these camps and plans were for the detention of AMERICANS, especially those who refused to surrender their weapons. The Rex-84 Alpha Explan (Readiness Exercise 1984, Exercise Plan), indicates that FEMA in association with 34 other federal civil departments and agencies conducted a civil readiness exercise during April 5-13, 1984. It was conducted in coordination and simultaneously with a Joint Chiefs exercise, Night Train 84, a worldwide military command post exercise (including Continental U.S. Forces or CONUS) based on multi-emergency scenarios operating both abroad and at home. In the combined exercise, Rex-84 Bravo, FEMA and DOD led the other federal agencies and departments, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secret Service, the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Veterans Administration through a gaming exercise to test military assistance in civil defense.
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Thank You President Bush
Thank You President Bush
Dear President George Bush,
Thank you for the continual War in Iraq.
Thank you for the massive federal deficits.
Thank you for our broken down highways and potholed roads.
Thank you for rewarding Haliburton with juicy government contracts.
Thank you for blindly watching the price of gasoline skyrocket with nary a word of dissent.
Thank you for allowing unemployment to rise and to watch the elimination of good paying jobs.
Thank you for your alert response during Hurricane Katrina and your continual efforts to make New Orleans whole again.
Thank you for your concern about the water crisis facing our country and your efforts to safeguard our water supply.
Thank you for conducting illegal wiretaps and invading the privacy of countless Americans.
Thank you for your minimal response to the challenges facing Global Warming.
Thank you for promoting tax cuts for the very wealthy in our country.
Thank you for your weak leadership regarding food safety.
Thank you for your compassion for rich people.
Thank you for being a strong, caring leader.
Insincerely Yours,
Mr. Pair O. Dee,
Mayor of Bizarro World
Dear President George Bush,
Thank you for the continual War in Iraq.
Thank you for the massive federal deficits.
Thank you for our broken down highways and potholed roads.
Thank you for rewarding Haliburton with juicy government contracts.
Thank you for blindly watching the price of gasoline skyrocket with nary a word of dissent.
Thank you for allowing unemployment to rise and to watch the elimination of good paying jobs.
Thank you for your alert response during Hurricane Katrina and your continual efforts to make New Orleans whole again.
Thank you for your concern about the water crisis facing our country and your efforts to safeguard our water supply.
Thank you for conducting illegal wiretaps and invading the privacy of countless Americans.
Thank you for your minimal response to the challenges facing Global Warming.
Thank you for promoting tax cuts for the very wealthy in our country.
Thank you for your weak leadership regarding food safety.
Thank you for your compassion for rich people.
Thank you for being a strong, caring leader.
Insincerely Yours,
Mr. Pair O. Dee,
Mayor of Bizarro World
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Caption BU$Hitler time!
"Golly Gee kids, I am be sure is hope there ain't another big bad TERRA attack by them thar EVIL-DOERS cuz you is know we HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF THEM, oh yeah and tell your mommy & daddy to VOTE REPUBLICAN cuz we'll keeps yous safe..."
Thursday, February 21, 2008
DAMN RIGHT I'M A LIBERAL!!!
I'll say it again: DAMN RIGHT I'M A LIBERAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Damn right I'm a liberal
Dan Kurtzman, who keeps the political snark fires burning over at About.com, wrote a terrific piece for his recent book, How to Win a Fight with a Conservative. We present it here with the author's kind permission:
Liberal Manifesto
Liberals believe in clean air, diplomacy, stem cells, living wages, body armor for our troops, government accountability, and that exercising the right to dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Liberals believe in reading actual books, going to war as a last resort, separating church and hate, and doing what Jesus would actually do, instead of lobbying for upper-class tax cuts and fantasizing about the apocalypse.
Liberals believe in civil rights, the right to privacy, and that evolution and global warming aren’t just theories but incontrovertible scientific facts.
Liberals believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment that (1) prohibits another Bush from ever occupying the White House, and (2) prevents George W. Bush from ever becoming baseball commissioner before he does to our national pastime what he did for America.
Liberals believe in rescuing people from flooded streets and rooftops, even if they’re too poor to vote Republican.
Liberals believe that supporting our troops means treating our wounded vets like the heroes they are, and not leaving them to languish in rat-infested military hospitals under the outsourced management of incompetent cronies who think they’re running a Taco Bell franchise.
Liberals believe in pheromones, sex ed, solar panels, voting paper trails, the common good, and that, no matter how fascinating a story it may be, a president should never sit around in a state of total paralysis reading "My Pet Goat" while America is under attack.
And above all, liberals believe that it’s time to come together as a country and put a collective boot in the ass of shameless conservative fearmongers, hate merchants, and scapegoaters who are sucking the freedom out of all our souls.
Laced up! Ready to go!
Cheers and Jeers starts in There's Moreville... [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]
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Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, February 21, 2008
Note: I keep trying to find words to describe John McCain's wife, Mrs. John McCain. And the only thing I can come up with is: Please don’t kill me.
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By the Numbers:
Days 'til the Sebago Lake Ice Fishing Derby and Winterfest: 1
Days 'til Bush and Cheney leave office: 333 (Ha Ha! Three butts mooning Bush!)
Number of pharmaceutical company sales reps in 1995: 35,000
Number of pharmaceutical company sales reps in 2007: Nearly 100,000
(Source: SmartMoney via The Week)
Projected percentage of U.S. population in 2050 who will be foreign-born: 19%
Foreign-born population in 1910: 15%
(Source: TIME)
Tonight's expected low temperature in Baghdad: 43°
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Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment:
Bush, Cheney and Co. will continue to play the patriotic bully card just as long as you let them. I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were "German dogs." They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds. The MINUTE someone impugns your patriotism for opposing this war, turn on them like a snarling dog and explain what loving your country really means. That, or you could just piss on them elegantly, as Rep. John Murtha did. Or eviscerate them with wit (look up Mark Twain on the war in the Philippines). Or point out the latest in the endless "string of bad news."
Do not sit there cowering and pretending the only way to win is as Republican-lite. If the Washington-based party can't get up and fight, we'll find someone who can.
---January, 2006
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Just SOME of my new amay messages and shit like that!
"Hi NSA...lizz my lizeft izz chizeek and mizake the rizight one jizlous!"
Or: "HAPPY 2008 BC! NEXT YEAR IS 2009 AD SO LONG AS A *DEMOCRAT* WINS THE WHITE HOUSE, AND WE GET MORE *REAL* DEMOCRATS IN CONgress!"
Or: "I am be out spend my tax remafund check to help stimurmalate the eCONomy cuz I am be loves GWBush so much, reeeeeeeee! http://Lu666Cifer.blogspot.com"
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And another thing, if you built a time machine and went back to 1999 and told me all the fucking BULLSHIT these cocksucker Retardlicans, along with ALL the accomplice DINO Democrats especially Pelosi & Reid, have done since STEALING the election in 2000, from spying on us SINCE BEFORE 9/11, to right now, I'd be like "WHAT drugs are YOU on?!?!?!"
Or: "HAPPY 2008 BC! NEXT YEAR IS 2009 AD SO LONG AS A *DEMOCRAT* WINS THE WHITE HOUSE, AND WE GET MORE *REAL* DEMOCRATS IN CONgress!"
Or: "I am be out spend my tax remafund check to help stimurmalate the eCONomy cuz I am be loves GWBush so much, reeeeeeeee! http://Lu666Cifer.blogspot.com"
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And another thing, if you built a time machine and went back to 1999 and told me all the fucking BULLSHIT these cocksucker Retardlicans, along with ALL the accomplice DINO Democrats especially Pelosi & Reid, have done since STEALING the election in 2000, from spying on us SINCE BEFORE 9/11, to right now, I'd be like "WHAT drugs are YOU on?!?!?!"
Shame on Elaine "No My Husband Didn't Get Me This Job" Chao
"It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government." Mercy Warren (Founder)
1805 - History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
If Clinton had pulled this shit during his 2nd term, the Repukes would have impeached him 10 times (the last 9 just for fun), jailed him, tortured him, killed him slowly, over a period of weeks, fed him to some liberal's dog, then jailed and tortured the dog, then slowly killed the dog, then force-fed the dog to Chelsea.
THEN they would have gotten mad!
They would have been screaming about how Clinton was setting himself above the law.
They would have been screaming about him not being accountable (or, in that case, THINKING that he wasn't accountable, because they don't have a bunch of spineless fascists sitting around; they have a bunch of fascists that will take action - as long is the leadership tells them to.
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Who is Elaine?
Elaine Chao is the Secretary of Labor, George W. Bush's longest-serving cabinet member, and wife of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
Under Elaine's questionable 'leadership,' the Department of Labor has turned into an agency that screws America's workers and enables corporate giveaways.
http://shameonelaine.org
Your Tax Dollars At Labor
By Sam Boyd
February 13th, 2008 - 8:56pm ET
Keeping track of Bush Administration scandals is difficult, in part because there are so damn many of them. For example, there's now an entire website dedicated to the various failings of Secretary of Labor (and wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell) Elaine Chao. There's defiance of congressional oversight:
The acting assistant secretary for mine safety and health David G. Dye, along with the administrator of coal mine safety and health Ray McKinney, both walked out of a January 2006 hearing by a Senate subcommittee, claiming they were "too busy with their duties to stay."
Appointing department employees to conduct "independent oversight":
: Despite complaints from miners and Congress, Elaine tapped former MSHA employees to investigate their own agency's handling of the disaster as part of an "independent commission," raising further questions about the validity of the investigation.
No-bid contracts:
: Despite complaints from miners and Congress, Elaine tapped former MSHA employees to investigate their own agency's handling of the disaster as part of an "independent commission," raising further questions about the validity of the investigation.
Electioneering:
During the 2006 midterm elections, Elaine and other administration officials traveled across the country awarding government funding, with great public fanfare, to districts where Mitch's embattled Senate colleagues — including Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) — were fighting to hold onto their seats.
And finally a totally over-the-top self-promotion at taxpayers expense:
Elaine used taxpayer funds to line the walls of the Labor Department with 58 pictures of herself, embroider her name on lanyards and fleece blankets distributed at conferences, and hand out Elaine-themed gold-colored coins at public events.
Man, I want a gold-colored coin with a bas relief of my face on it. See the site for much much much more.
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/your-tax-dollars-labor
1805 - History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
If Clinton had pulled this shit during his 2nd term, the Repukes would have impeached him 10 times (the last 9 just for fun), jailed him, tortured him, killed him slowly, over a period of weeks, fed him to some liberal's dog, then jailed and tortured the dog, then slowly killed the dog, then force-fed the dog to Chelsea.
THEN they would have gotten mad!
They would have been screaming about how Clinton was setting himself above the law.
They would have been screaming about him not being accountable (or, in that case, THINKING that he wasn't accountable, because they don't have a bunch of spineless fascists sitting around; they have a bunch of fascists that will take action - as long is the leadership tells them to.
________________________
Elaine Chao is the Secretary of Labor, George W. Bush's longest-serving cabinet member, and wife of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
Under Elaine's questionable 'leadership,' the Department of Labor has turned into an agency that screws America's workers and enables corporate giveaways.
http://shameonelaine.org
Your Tax Dollars At Labor
By Sam Boyd
February 13th, 2008 - 8:56pm ET
Keeping track of Bush Administration scandals is difficult, in part because there are so damn many of them. For example, there's now an entire website dedicated to the various failings of Secretary of Labor (and wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell) Elaine Chao. There's defiance of congressional oversight:
The acting assistant secretary for mine safety and health David G. Dye, along with the administrator of coal mine safety and health Ray McKinney, both walked out of a January 2006 hearing by a Senate subcommittee, claiming they were "too busy with their duties to stay."
Appointing department employees to conduct "independent oversight":
: Despite complaints from miners and Congress, Elaine tapped former MSHA employees to investigate their own agency's handling of the disaster as part of an "independent commission," raising further questions about the validity of the investigation.
No-bid contracts:
: Despite complaints from miners and Congress, Elaine tapped former MSHA employees to investigate their own agency's handling of the disaster as part of an "independent commission," raising further questions about the validity of the investigation.
Electioneering:
During the 2006 midterm elections, Elaine and other administration officials traveled across the country awarding government funding, with great public fanfare, to districts where Mitch's embattled Senate colleagues — including Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) — were fighting to hold onto their seats.
And finally a totally over-the-top self-promotion at taxpayers expense:
Elaine used taxpayer funds to line the walls of the Labor Department with 58 pictures of herself, embroider her name on lanyards and fleece blankets distributed at conferences, and hand out Elaine-themed gold-colored coins at public events.
Man, I want a gold-colored coin with a bas relief of my face on it. See the site for much much much more.
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/your-tax-dollars-labor
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
3959
3959 DEAD US SOLDIERS (that's just the ones who died "in theatre" OH GODDAMNIT TO HELLFIRE ON A STICK, don't you just FUCKING HATE HATE HATE that term!? Like it's a fucking Shakespear or some shit?!?!?! NO COCKSUCKER, THIS IS ***REAL***!!!!) FOR MR. 19% and the rest of the BU$Hitler CRIME FAMILY'S *ILLEGAL* WAR/OCCUPATION OF IRAQ FOR OIL.
(And does ANYONE report ANYTHING from Afghanistan anymore?!?!!?)
Notice something!? The number KEEPS GOING UP! And it will CONTINUE TO GO UP...until this fucking BULLSHIT finally comes to a long overdue end. Beyond belief that it was even allowed to happen in the FIRST FUCKING PLACE.
Just for the record, I am going to keep posting posts like this UNTIL THIS BULLSHIT ILLEGAL OCCUPATION COMES TO ITS MUCH OVERDUE END.
Just what in the FUCK is it going to take America?!?!?!?!?!?!? 4,000?! 10,000?! 40,000?!
Oh I'm sorry to bother you, American Fucking Idol is on and you just got a call on your goddamn iFoney!!!
Republitards and their culture of life?????????????????????
(And does ANYONE report ANYTHING from Afghanistan anymore?!?!!?)
Notice something!? The number KEEPS GOING UP! And it will CONTINUE TO GO UP...until this fucking BULLSHIT finally comes to a long overdue end. Beyond belief that it was even allowed to happen in the FIRST FUCKING PLACE.
Just for the record, I am going to keep posting posts like this UNTIL THIS BULLSHIT ILLEGAL OCCUPATION COMES TO ITS MUCH OVERDUE END.
Just what in the FUCK is it going to take America?!?!?!?!?!?!? 4,000?! 10,000?! 40,000?!
Oh I'm sorry to bother you, American Fucking Idol is on and you just got a call on your goddamn iFoney!!!
Republitards and their culture of life?????????????????????
WTF! BU$Hitler orders CLAMPDOWN on FLIGHTS TO THE USA!?
Where in the HELL do I even BEING TO EVEN START with this brand steaming new load of pure CRAP!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??! What new INSIDIOUS VILE FREAKY bunch of new RULES or whatever do these Nazi Assholes have in mind for making flying, which is already ENOUGH of a pain in the ass, even MORE shitty!?!?!?!?!? Who's next to get harassed and detained for 900 years because someone doesn't like their last name, or whatever head-gear they have on, or their "Fuck You" hat, etc ad nauseum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will this insanity ever end?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/11/usa.theairlineindustry
http://www.guardian.co.uk
Bush orders clampdown on flights to US
EU officials furious as Washington says it wants extra data on all air passengers
- Ian Traynor in Brussels
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Bush administration is calling for armed air marshals on transatlantic flights. Photograph: Eric Meola/Getty Images
The US administration is pressing the 27 governments of the European Union to sign up for a range of new security measures for transatlantic travel, including allowing armed guards on all flights from Europe to America by US airlines.
The demand to put armed air marshals on to the flights is part of a travel clampdown by the Bush administration that officials in Brussels described as "blackmail" and "troublesome", and could see west Europeans and Britons required to have US visas if their governments balk at Washington's requirements.
According to a US document being circulated for signature in European capitals, EU states would also need to supply personal data on all air passengers overflying but not landing in the US in order to gain or retain visa-free travel to America, senior EU officials said.
And within months the US department of homeland security is to impose a new permit system for Europeans flying to the US, compelling all travellers to apply online for permission to enter the country before booking or buying a ticket, a procedure that will take several days.
The data from the US's new electronic transport authorisation system is to be combined with extensive personal passenger details already being provided by EU countries to the US for the "profiling" of potential terrorists and assessment of other security risks.
Washington is also asking European airlines to provide personal data on non-travellers - for example family members - who are allowed beyond departure barriers to help elderly, young or ill passengers to board aircraft flying to America, a demand the airlines reject as "absurd".
Seven demands tabled by Washington are contained in a 10-page "memorandum of understanding" (MOU) that the US authorities are negotiating or planning to negotiate with all EU governments, according to ministers and diplomats from EU member states and senior officials in Brussels. The Americans have launched their security drive with some of the 12 mainly east European EU countries whose citizens still need visas to enter the US.
"The Americans are trying to get a beefing up of their visa-waiver programmes. It's all contained in the MOU they want to put to all EU member states," said a diplomat from a west European country. "It's a very delicate problem."
As part of a controversial passenger data exchange programme allegedly aimed at combating terrorism, the EU has for the past few months been supplying the American authorities with 19 items of information on every traveller flying from the EU to the US.
The new American demands go well beyond what was agreed under that passenger name record (PNR) system and look certain to cause disputes within Europe and between Europe and the US.
Brussels is pressing European governments not to sign the bilateral deals with the Americans to avoid weakening the EU bargaining position. But Washington appears close to striking accords on the new travel regime with Greece and the Czech Republic. Both countries have sizeable diaspora communities in America, while their citizens need visas to enter the US. Visa-free travel would be popular in both countries.
A senior EU official said the Americans could get "a gung-ho frontrunner" to sign up to the new regime and then use that agreement "as a rod to beat the other member states with". The frontrunner appears to be the Czech Republic. On Wednesday, Richard Barth of the department of homeland security was in Prague to negotiate with the Czech deputy prime minister, Alexandr Vondra,
Prague hoped to sign the US memorandum "in the spring", Vondra said. "The EU has done nothing for us on visas," he said. "There was no help, no solidarity in the past. It's in our interest to move ahead. We can't just wait and do nothing. We have to act in the interest of our citizens."
While the Czechs are in a hurry to sign up, Brussels is urging delay in order to try to reach a common European position.
"There is a process of consultation and coordination under way," said Jonathan Faull, a senior European commission official involved in the negotiations with the Americans.
To European ears, the US demands sound draconian. "This would oblige the European countries to allow US air marshals on US flights. It's controversial and difficult," an EU official said. At the moment the use of air marshals is discretionary for European states and airlines.
While armed American guards would be entitled to sit on the European flights to the US, the Americans also want the PNR data transfers extended from travellers from Europe to the US to include the details of those whose flights are not to America, but which overfly US territory, say to central America or the Caribbean.
Brussels has told Washington that its demands raise legal problems in Europe over data protection, over guarantees on how the information is handled, over which US agencies have access to it or with whom it might be shared, and over issues of redress if the data is misused.
The Association of European Airlines, representing 31 airlines, including all the big west European national carriers, has told the US authorities that there is "no international legal foundation" for supplying them with data about passengers on flights overflying US territory.
The US Transport Security Administration has also asked the European airlines to supply personal data on "certain non-travelling members of the public requesting access to areas beyond the screening checkpoint".
The AEA said this was "absurd" because the airlines neither obtain nor can obtain such information. The request was "fully unjustified".
If the Americans persevere in the proposed security crackdown, Brussels is likely to respond with tit-for-tat action, such as calling for visas for some Americans.
European governments, however, would probably veto such action, one official said, not least for fear of the "massive disruption given the huge volume of transatlantic traffic".
Friday, February 1, 2008
“Cyber Storm” Pegs Bloggers, Reporters as Terrorists
Well well well kids, how the fuck do you like this latest load of pure HORSE'S ASSED BULLSHIT?!?!?! So *I* am a goddamn TERRORIST according to these ASSHOLES?! BLOW ME! Here's the deal: DHS, CIA, the "Justice" Dept., NSA, State Dept., Pentago, etc., YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ARE TERRORIST, CASE FUCKING CLOSED! I have NO interesting in hacking SHIT at the fucking NY/NJ fucking Port Authority or whatever, got it?! *IF* I could hack, I would GLADLY do like some hacker did in the mid-90's and change y'all's webpages to read "GOD WE ARE FUCKING MORONIC ASSHOLES!" oh yeah and I'd bump up my grades too...who wouldn't?! That's IT! So suck a nut, nice try, game--set--match--YOU LOSE!
You people shit violently on the CONSTITUTION (look it up) so GO FUCK YOURSELVES! You sure do seem like you need a good orgasm!
“Cyber Storm” Pegs Bloggers, Reporters as Terrorists
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/310108_bloggers.htm
You people shit violently on the CONSTITUTION (look it up) so GO FUCK YOURSELVES! You sure do seem like you need a good orgasm!
“Cyber Storm” Pegs Bloggers, Reporters as Terrorists
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/310108_bloggers.htm
Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet
Thursday, January 31, 2008
In heavily redacted documents released by the Ministry of Homeland Security, we learn that the State Department, Pentagon, Justice Department, CIA, National Security Agency and other leviathan agencies consider “hackers, bloggers and even reporters” a threat to national security.
In “dozens of detailed, mock disasters,” the Associated Press reports, these “villains” launch “electronic attacks” against “computers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.” Adding to the treason, a “major news network” refuses to air its sources when reporting the fictional attacks, as of course we know the media is expected to serve the state. In the real, non-Bushzarro world, of course, the corporate media would never run such a story, but never mind, the Ministry would have us believe it is the 1970s, back when newspapers on occasion ran investigative journalism.
“The $3 million, invitation-only war game simulated what the U.S. described as plausible attacks over five days in February 2006 against the technology industry, transportation lines and energy utilities by anti-globalization hackers,” the Associated Press continues. In other words, as the Ministry would have it, “plausible attacks” come not from an imaginary al-Qaeda, the CIA created terror group, but rather from people opposed to the globalist plan to turn the world into a slave plantation based on the China model.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
BU$Hitlers FINAL SOTU speech...BLAH BLAH BLAH, MORE FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!
Did any of y'all manage to listen to ANY of that fucking goddamn piece of SHIT yap on and on and on last night?! I swear to Lord Satan, the ONLY way I did was via the great Mike Malloy CLOWNING out the Chimp! To all you 19%ers out there, I hope y'all didn't hurt your private parts TOO badly while you jacked off so hard you shit the bed! Actually, I take that back, I hope y'all got something painful stuck up your assholes and had to go to the ER to get it removed!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and what REALLY cracked me the fuck up was how Man Or Monkey said this, get ready to fall out of your chairs, and I quote: "Seven years have passed since I first stood before you at this rostrum. In that time, our country has been tested in ways none of us could have imagined. We faced hard decisions about peace and war, rising competition in the world economy, and the health and welfare of our citizens. These issues call for vigorous debate, and I think it's fair to say we've answered the call." VIGOROUS FUCKING DEBATE?!?!?! EXCUSE ME YOU SCUMBAG MOTHERBUTTFUCKER, but, you have done EVERYTHING within your power since you stole office in 2000 from my backyard of Palm Beach TO SQUASH DEBATE!!! Oh yeah, like we forget you and your goddamn "FREE SPEECH ZONES"!??!!? And how anyone who "dares" to go on a freakin airplane wearing a t-shirt that's even the slightest bit critical of Your Holy Majesty gets interrogated by Nazi Thugs for 900 hours?! BLOW IT OUT YOUR FUCKING ASS GEORGIEPOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got something VIGOROUS for you, RIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT HEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Piece of shit. And gods help your sorry bitch ass if you even THINK of Martial Law and not leaving office. Pack your shit and go to fucking Paraguay like all the other cowardly Nazi scum.
Oh and what REALLY cracked me the fuck up was how Man Or Monkey said this, get ready to fall out of your chairs, and I quote: "Seven years have passed since I first stood before you at this rostrum. In that time, our country has been tested in ways none of us could have imagined. We faced hard decisions about peace and war, rising competition in the world economy, and the health and welfare of our citizens. These issues call for vigorous debate, and I think it's fair to say we've answered the call." VIGOROUS FUCKING DEBATE?!?!?! EXCUSE ME YOU SCUMBAG MOTHERBUTTFUCKER, but, you have done EVERYTHING within your power since you stole office in 2000 from my backyard of Palm Beach TO SQUASH DEBATE!!! Oh yeah, like we forget you and your goddamn "FREE SPEECH ZONES"!??!!? And how anyone who "dares" to go on a freakin airplane wearing a t-shirt that's even the slightest bit critical of Your Holy Majesty gets interrogated by Nazi Thugs for 900 hours?! BLOW IT OUT YOUR FUCKING ASS GEORGIEPOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got something VIGOROUS for you, RIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT HEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Piece of shit. And gods help your sorry bitch ass if you even THINK of Martial Law and not leaving office. Pack your shit and go to fucking Paraguay like all the other cowardly Nazi scum.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
From MikeMalloy.com (but it'll probly be goner by the time ya get there, so, that's why I'M POSTING IT! I made the really bad ass stuff bold and/or larger, other wise it's no different than what I cut N pasted, enjoy! :p)
January 23, 2008
Does anyone care? Anyone? Hello . . .????
The story appeared late yesterday from the Associated Press titled, "False Statements Preceded War."
It said, in part, "A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements [goddam lies!] about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.The study concluded that the statements 'were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.'"
The article, by AP writer Douglass K. Daniel, continued. "The study counted 935 false statements [lies, goddam it; lies!] in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both."
Astonishing. Criminal. Nazi-like lies from the most corrupt regime ever to control the U.S. - the Bush Crime Family.
The article continued: "It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida," according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. "In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information [goddam lies!] that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003."
Named in the study along with Bush were his then top officials: Vice President Dick Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.
The article concluded, "The cumulative effect of these false statements [goddam lies!] — amplified by thousands of news stories and broadcasts — was massive, with the media coverage creating an almost impenetrable din for several critical months in the run-up to war," the study concluded.
"Some journalists — indeed, even some entire news organizations — have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical. These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, 'independent' validation of the Bush administration's false statements [goddam lies!] about Iraq," it said.
And Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the rest of the cowardly, complicit Democratic Party leadership refuses - utterly refuses! - immediately to begin impeachment proceedings against the murderous bastards who are taking the U.S. directly into its own destruction.
- MDM
January 23, 2008
Does anyone care? Anyone? Hello . . .????
The story appeared late yesterday from the Associated Press titled, "False Statements Preceded War."
It said, in part, "A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements [goddam lies!] about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.The study concluded that the statements 'were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.'"
The article, by AP writer Douglass K. Daniel, continued. "The study counted 935 false statements [lies, goddam it; lies!] in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both."
Astonishing. Criminal. Nazi-like lies from the most corrupt regime ever to control the U.S. - the Bush Crime Family.
The article continued: "It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida," according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. "In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information [goddam lies!] that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003."
Named in the study along with Bush were his then top officials: Vice President Dick Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.
The article concluded, "The cumulative effect of these false statements [goddam lies!] — amplified by thousands of news stories and broadcasts — was massive, with the media coverage creating an almost impenetrable din for several critical months in the run-up to war," the study concluded.
"Some journalists — indeed, even some entire news organizations — have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical. These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, 'independent' validation of the Bush administration's false statements [goddam lies!] about Iraq," it said.
And Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the rest of the cowardly, complicit Democratic Party leadership refuses - utterly refuses! - immediately to begin impeachment proceedings against the murderous bastards who are taking the U.S. directly into its own destruction.
- MDM
Friday, January 18, 2008
3926
3926 DEAD US SOLDIERS (that's just the ones who died "in theatre" OH GODDAMNIT TO HELLFIRE ON A STICK, don't you just FUCKING HATE HATE HATE that term!? Like it's a fucking Shakespear or some shit?!?!?! NO COCKSUCKER, THIS IS ***REAL***!!!!) FOR MR. 19% and the rest of the BU$Hitler CRIME FAMILY'S *ILLEGAL* WAR/OCCUPATION OF IRAQ FOR OIL.
(And does ANYONE report ANYTHING from Afghanistan anymore?!?!!?)
Notice something!? The number KEEPS GOING UP! And it will CONTINUE TO GO UP...until this fucking BULLSHIT finally comes to a long overdue end. Beyond belief that it was even allowed to happen in the FIRST FUCKING PLACE.
Just for the record, I am going to keep posting posts like this UNTIL THIS BULLSHIT ILLEGAL OCCUPATION COMES TO ITS MUCH OVERDUE END.
Just what in the FUCK is it going to take America?!?!?!?!?!?!? 4,000?! 10,000?! 40,000?!
Oh I'm sorry to bother you, American Fucking Idol is on and you just got a call on your goddamn iFoney!!!
Republitards and their culture of life?????????????????????
(And does ANYONE report ANYTHING from Afghanistan anymore?!?!!?)
Notice something!? The number KEEPS GOING UP! And it will CONTINUE TO GO UP...until this fucking BULLSHIT finally comes to a long overdue end. Beyond belief that it was even allowed to happen in the FIRST FUCKING PLACE.
Just for the record, I am going to keep posting posts like this UNTIL THIS BULLSHIT ILLEGAL OCCUPATION COMES TO ITS MUCH OVERDUE END.
Just what in the FUCK is it going to take America?!?!?!?!?!?!? 4,000?! 10,000?! 40,000?!
Oh I'm sorry to bother you, American Fucking Idol is on and you just got a call on your goddamn iFoney!!!
Republitards and their culture of life?????????????????????
Monday, January 14, 2008
And if I hear ONE MORE FUCKING THING ABOUT GODDAMNED STUPID BIMBO BRITTNEY, I WILL VOMIT AND IT WILL LOOK LIKE A COMET!!!!!
How fucking important!
NOT!
A washed up white trash miserable sack of shit no talent WHORE who can't get her shit together!
FUCK OFF mainstream media, WE DO NOT GIVE 2 SHITS AND A FUCK!
^^The above image says ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW! End of story, case frakin' CLOOOOOOSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOT!
A washed up white trash miserable sack of shit no talent WHORE who can't get her shit together!
FUCK OFF mainstream media, WE DO NOT GIVE 2 SHITS AND A FUCK!
^^The above image says ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW! End of story, case frakin' CLOOOOOOSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3923
3923 DEAD US SOLDIERS (that's just the ones who died "in theatre" OH GODDAMNIT TO HELLFIRE ON A STICK, don't you just FUCKING HATE HATE HATE that term!? Like it's a fucking Shakespear or some shit?!?!?! NO COCKSUCKER, THIS IS ***REAL***!!!!) FOR MR. 19% and the rest of the BU$Hitler CRIME FAMILY'S *ILLEGAL* WAR/OCCUPATION OF IRAQ FOR OIL.
(And does ANYONE report ANYTHING from Afghanistan anymore?!?!!?)
Notice something!? The number KEEPS GOING UP! And it will CONTINUE TO GO UP...until this fucking BULLSHIT finally comes to a long overdue end. Beyond belief that it was even allowed to happen in the FIRST FUCKING PLACE.
Just for the record, I am going to keep posting posts like this UNTIL THIS BULLSHIT ILLEGAL OCCUPATION COMES TO ITS MUCH OVERDUE END.
Just what in the FUCK is it going to take America?!?!?!?!?!?!? 4,000?! 10,000?! 40,000?!
Oh I'm sorry to bother you, American Fucking Idol is on and you just got a call on your goddamn iFoney!!!
Republitards and their culture of life?????????????????????
(And does ANYONE report ANYTHING from Afghanistan anymore?!?!!?)
Notice something!? The number KEEPS GOING UP! And it will CONTINUE TO GO UP...until this fucking BULLSHIT finally comes to a long overdue end. Beyond belief that it was even allowed to happen in the FIRST FUCKING PLACE.
Just for the record, I am going to keep posting posts like this UNTIL THIS BULLSHIT ILLEGAL OCCUPATION COMES TO ITS MUCH OVERDUE END.
Just what in the FUCK is it going to take America?!?!?!?!?!?!? 4,000?! 10,000?! 40,000?!
Oh I'm sorry to bother you, American Fucking Idol is on and you just got a call on your goddamn iFoney!!!
Republitards and their culture of life?????????????????????
Good news: Fewer people moving to Florida!!!
Every paper in the STATE pretty much has on the main page now this poll that shows MORE people who live in FloriDUH think it SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!! NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!!
Growth rate is down to a drip, THANK SATAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Warm weather IS NOT a substitute for A LIFE!!!
And as always, Carl Hiaasen distills it all down and to the point!
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/375954.html
Growth rate is down to a drip, THANK SATAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Warm weather IS NOT a substitute for A LIFE!!!
And as always, Carl Hiaasen distills it all down and to the point!
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/375954.html
Good news: Fewer people moving to Florida
By CARL HIAASEN
The mad stampede of new residents into Florida is finally slowing down, the inevitable result of high taxes, miserable traffic, overcrowded classrooms and other unappealing urban problems.
According to the Census Bureau, the state's population grew by only 1.1 percent during the 12-month span ending last July 1. That's a significant dip from the 1.8 percent increase recorded the previous year, and it drops Florida's growth rate to 19th in the nation.
This is a cause for relief, not panic. Any lull in the avalanche of incoming humanity should be eagerly welcomed by the 18.3 million souls already living here. The last thing we need is more warm bodies clogging the roads, schools, courts, jails and hospitals.
A break is long overdue. It's not a crisis but rather an opportunity. At long last, state and community leaders might be forced to intelligently confront the economic blowback from decades of inept planning and greed-fueled runaway growth.
With each passing day, Florida is becoming a less desirable place to live. For the first time in modern memory, moving companies report that they're transporting more families out of the Sunshine State than into it.
The disenchantment is widespread and deep-seated, judging by a new Mason-Dixon survey that was released by Leadership Florida, a group founded by the state Chamber of Commerce.
Of more than 1,100 residents interviewed by telephone in November, 43 percent said their quality of life has declined over the last five years. That's an eye-popping number, up 7 percent from 2006.
More evidence that lots of people see their Florida dream dissolving: Of those surveyed, only 24 percent said they think things will get better during the next five years. Thirty-seven percent believe the state will become a worse place to live during that time.
The increasingly glum outlook of many Floridians isn't just a reaction to off-the-chart property taxes and insurance rates, as politicians want us to believe.
More and more folks are figuring out what serious urban planners have known for a long time: Run-amok growth doesn't pay for itself. Taxpayers always get stuck with the bill for sprawl and also with the hometown ills it brings. By an overwhelming margin of nearly three-to-one, Floridians polled in the Leadership Florida survey oppose higher population densities in their neighborhoods -- a view that resonates fairly evenly among registered Democrats, Republicans and independents.
A majority of residents, 52 percent, believe local governments are ''not effectively managing growth'' in their communities. The figure is unchanged from 2006, and the Mason-Dixon pollsters describe the sentiment as ``strong and and consistent among all groups and across the state.''
Respondents were divided evenly when asked whether new people moving into Florida was good or bad. The question is rarely even whispered among politicians, many of whom live in fear of antagonizing the developers, bankers and road builders who bankroll election campaigns.
The beleaguered sense among many Floridians -- that they're not only being overtaxed but overrun -- will not soon go away. Politicians who resist calls for strict land-use reforms and continue to shill for special interests risk being dumped from office by those whom they've ignored.
It's happened already in scores of municipalities where voters got fed up watching their green spaces malled and paved while the waterfronts went condo.
The social equation isn't complicated. The more people you cram into a place, even a place as vast and geographically diverse as Florida, the more stressful life becomes for everybody. It also becomes more expensive. Ask anyone in New York or California what happened to their taxes as the populations of those states swelled.
A bipartisan group that advocates semi-sane growth policies, 1000 Friends of Florida, last year predicted that the state's population would double to 36 million by 2060, and that seven million acres of agricultural land and wilderness would be converted to concrete and asphalt.
That was before the real-estate market tanked and the subprime mortgage racket imploded, but there's no denying that even an overcrowded Florida continues to hold some mythical allure, whether you live in Dubuque or Port-au-Prince.
Despite their rising disillusionment, about 62 percent of those interviewed for the Leadership Florida poll said they'd still recommend the state as a place for friends or relatives to live.
For strangers? Maybe not. Because growth is an exalted industry unto itself, rather than the natural result of a broadening economic base, lawmakers have always focused on attracting hordes of new residents at all costs. The first casualty of such a fast-buck mentality is the quality of life.
One out of five Floridians surveyed in November say they are ''seriously considering'' moving elsewhere.
This is what's known as a message. And, for those who've sold out Florida's future to enrich their campaign coffers, it breaks down like this:
Enough.
Same Old Song And Dance by The Republicans OUT NOW!
This is too funnt! From http://internetweekly.org/2008/01/cartoon_the_republicans.html
NASHVILLE, TN (IWR Satire) - The 2008 Republican Candidates today released their much anticipated vinyl album "Same Old Song And Dance" at a gala event held at the Nashville Howard Johnson's to a rather small crowd of Fox News reporters. The aging band is hoping their album will help raise millions to fund the GOP's vicious attack ads planned for this Summer.
NASHVILLE, TN (IWR Satire) - The 2008 Republican Candidates today released their much anticipated vinyl album "Same Old Song And Dance" at a gala event held at the Nashville Howard Johnson's to a rather small crowd of Fox News reporters. The aging band is hoping their album will help raise millions to fund the GOP's vicious attack ads planned for this Summer.The band members include: lead singer John "Methuselah" McCain, two fingered Hammond organ player "One-Trick Rudy" Giuliani, drummer Mitt "Gringo" Romney, on duck calls Fred "Frankenberry" Thompson and Mike "Huckster" Hucklebee on bass guitar.
Hear is the list of the songs from the LP:
- Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
- War, What Is It Good For? Halliburton Of Course!
- Me, Myself and Big Business
- Same Old Song An Dance
- Moral Hypocrisy Rap
- Let The Poor Eat Cake
- Capital Gains Tax Cut Boogie
- Budget Busters
- Beat It
- Whip It
- Please Do Fence Me In
- Gay Bash Mash
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