Bushco thugs versus everything humans have fought and died for - freedom freedom freedom.
President Cheney: fuck your freedom with my money, sideways.
Sadly, what Bush/Cheneyco represents is gonna destroy the planet. The greed and stupidity of our race have allowed their sickening and appalling ascent, and there is no real counter until it's too late.
Weird to be living in this time - a beneficiary of the Euro Enlightenment, and watching TV destroy it all.
Posted by Sharkbabe at February 4, 2006 06:07 PM"I was checking with a lawyer what I could say and what I couldn't."
I listen to Dr. Hansen on NPR today, and could not believe what I was hearing. Prior to Bush's Administration, I would never have dreamed that someone would be not be free to talk about reductions in emissions and global warming. Democracy ended the day that GWB laid his right hand on the Bible and swore to protect the Constitution of the United States, "so help me God." I am telling you, we are in a very very dire situation.
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[Editor: ignore=off]While this article is about 911, it is also about the American people not demanding the truth about 911, the War, global warming, the outing of a CIA Agent, etc. It is also about the voices that are being silenced and the questions never being asked. How many other Hansens are there, who are being threatened and are fearful to come forward with the truth, whether it be about the twin towers or global warming?
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/13760721.htm
9/11 ATTACKS
Avoiding the hard questions
ROBERT STEINBACK
I was 8 years old when President John Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas in 1963. If grace favors me, I'll be 62 when documents related to the assassination are released to the public, and 84 when the Warren Commission's investigative files into the tragedy are finally opened. That's a long time to wait for a chance to evaluate the purported truth.
It's a blot on the presumed sophistication of the people of the United States that any aspect of an event so dramatic and shocking should be
kept from us. Perhaps it's true, to abuse the line from A Few Good Men yet again, that we can't handle the truth. But there cannot be genuine
resolution as long as such critical information remains concealed.
Since Kennedy's assassination, Americans have lurched between demanding to know and plugging their ears: The Pentagon Papers, My Lai, the King
assassination, Watergate, Iran-contra, the savings and loan debacle, Monicagate. Lately, however, it would seem the public's verdict is in: Don't tell us. Keep us in the dark. We don't want to know.
This is the worst possible time for probe-ophobia to grip us. Our nation was irretrievably transformed by 9/11, and yet there remain
troubling questions about what really happened before, during and after that day. Rather than demanding a full and fearless vetting to hone in
on the truth and silence the conjecture about 9/11, many Americans remain unwilling to peer into the microscope.
Our current probe-ophobia is due in part to the political landscape: When one party holds all the cards, any call to investigate an alleged abuse of power or cover-up -- no matter how valid -- will look like a partisan vendetta. Those in power never want to investigate themselves.
Maybe that's politics; he who holds the hammer drives the nails. But the outrage of 9/11 transcends party affiliation. We need all the outstanding questions answered, wherever the chips may fall.
Posted by Judith at February 4, 2006 08:40 PMI'm sure this will come as a shock to Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), but America is no longer the world's most competitive nation. That distinction belongs to Finland and has for the past three years. Another Bush legacy.
Posted by Frankly, my dear, ... at February 5, 2006 07:13 AMEvery village needs an idiot. In this instance, the idiot runs the show.
Frankly, my dear...
This was an intersting snippet about the U.S.S.A. from your link.
But the country's greatest weakness concerns the health of its macroeconomic environment, where it ranks a low 47th overall.
Posted by phidipides at February 6, 2006 01:34 PM