December 31, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

In the aftermath of the international crimes against humanity of 2001 we have tortured, we have murdered, we have brutalised and killed the innocent - we have even added our shame at abu Ghraib to Saddam's shame at Abu Ghraib - and yet we are supposed to forget these terrible crimes as we applaud the swinging corpse of the dictator we created. R. Fisk

ALERT

US MILITARY DEATHS HIT 3,000…
http://tinyurl.com/te7wz

DUMB BUSHISM

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

PONDER THIS

I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

WAR
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The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales: Aesop, Fables
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History of Bushes and Hussein Is Hard to Ignore
http://tinyurl.com/wz2zu

Escalation now is a truly horrific approach to the mess this administration has made of Iraq. This approach is precisely what the American people voted against in the last election, which means that this government has not and will not listen to the voice of the people.
http://tinyurl.com/u37tv

THE WHITE HOUSE
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In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave - Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October 1962
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The President's praise of fair trials and the rule of law - President Bush today hailed the critical importance of fair trials and the rule of law . . . . in Iraq: - That is why it is so reprehensible and inexpressibly tragic that the Bush administration continues to claim -- and aggressively exercise -- the power to imprison and punish people without even a pretense or fraction of the due process that Saddam Hussein enjoyed.
http://tinyurl.com/ycdpuj

CABINETS, COMMISSIONS, etc

DNI Awards $2 Million in Hush-Hush Moneyhttp://tinyurl.com/y8g2kl

POLITICS

Regarding the late President Ford - Gerald Ford forced to admit the Warren Report fictionalized
http://tinyurl.com/yljg92

Why Ford Pardoned Nixon: To Keep Secret His Role in the Kennedy Assasination - The DNC had gotten copies of the photographs taken of the three tramps in Dealey Plaza, and identified two of them as long time Nixon henchmen E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. This put the DNC in a position to at least blackmail the President, if not expose him outright.
http://tinyurl.com/d5mm7

SCANDAL

Highway Robbery - Governor Jon Corzine intends to sell New Jersey's toll roads to private investors for $10 billion. Selling or leasing publicly owned toll roads degrades our public and financial security. Toll road takeovers led by Goldman Sachs, where Governor Corzine was the Chairman and CEO before taking elected office, prove the point...Goldman Sachs took the Indiana Toll Road and the Chicago Skyway private in 2005. Goldman invested its own money in both deals. Goldman worked every side of these deals, collecting fees as lobbyists, deal makers and investors.
http://tinyurl.com/uxgly

DOJ Probes Interior Officials' Ties to Oil Program - The Justice Department is investigating whether the director of a multibillion-dollar oil-trading program at the Interior Department has been paid as a consultant for oil companies hoping for contracts.
http://tinyurl.com/y89468

DID YOU KNOW?

-Americans see gloom, doom in 2007

-The government can look at any piece of mail it wants without the need for a warrant.

-Government promises safer lettuce

-Low-cost laptop may transform learning

-Net neutrality wins short-term battle

-Exxon CEO Defends Predecessor’s $400 Million Retirement Package

-Maytag workers say goodbyes

-Biden wants Rice to testify on Iraq policy

-Tax forms mailed with Soc. Sec. numbers

-Localities Operate Intelligence Centers To Pool Terror Data (as they invade your privacy)

- Minor ailments can thwart applicants for individual policies.

ECONOMY

Living in America's Fringe Economy - Millions of Americans live on the margins of the American economy, depending on the likes of payday lenders and pawnshops, who charge excessive interest rates and superhigh fees for their services.
http://tinyurl.com/slr7h

CONGRESS
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"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."-- Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
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Conyers accepts 'responsibility' for alleged ethics violations
http://tinyurl.com/wsq4a

GOP Sen. Specter: I'm Not Giving Bush A “Blank Check” For Troop Escalation...
http://tinyurl.com/y7xhbx

GOP Sen. Lugar: If Bush Doesn't Consult Congress On Iraq It Could “Get Ugly”...
http://tinyurl.com/yabmj5

DOMESTIC

Super-union seen within a decade
http://tinyurl.com/ymkn5t

Blog: 'Your mail is officially not safe'
http://tinyurl.com/uwbtu

ENVIRONMENT

China's Coal Boom Making “Toxic Clouds So Big They Can Be Seen From Space”...
http://tinyurl.com/y8anrv

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

'Hands off gay sheep,' scientists are told - Fears that tests to 'cure' gay rams will pave way to breed out homosexuality in man.
http://tinyurl.com/yxwonk

MILITARY

Third time's the harm - After two tours of duty in Afghanistan, Steven Henderson says his latest callup 'not to exceed 545 days' in Iraq is asking too much.
http://tinyurl.com/yjbbh9

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

67-Year Old Gives Birth To Twins...World's Oldest New Mother...
http://tinyurl.com/ud7xz