January 14, 2007

THE THINKING SPOT

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS!!!! The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism said that he was dismayed that lawyers at many of the nation's top firms were representing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and that the firms' corporate clients should consider ending their business ties.

ALERT #1

Bush Administration "Aggressively" Expanding Domestic Spying - The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans - The CIA has also been issuing what are known as national security letters to gain access to financial records from American companies,
http://tinyurl.com/yac4px

ALERT #2

Housing Bubble Bloodbath *** Imagine mortgage payments that suddenly jump from $1,300 per month to more than $2,000 on a $129,000 house. That’s what many people will be facing in 2007 when their loans reset and they are suddenly forced out of their homes and onto the streets.
http://tinyurl.com/y74oks

WAR

Breaking Ranks: Troops Call for Iraq Withdrawal - - active duty troops will travel to Washington to present the Appeal for Redress of Grievances from the US Congress to US Representative Dennis Kucinich
http://tinyurl.com/ylhh3p

Top Dem Wesley Clark Says ‘N.Y. Money People’ Pushing War With Iran: Retired general Wesley Clark drew harsh criticism this week after reportedly saying that “New York money people” are pushing America into a war against Iran.
http://tinyurl.com/yedtj8

DUMB BUSHISM

"But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." —summing up his first year in office, three months after the 9/11 attacks, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2001

PONDER THIS

Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

SCANDAL

Iraq's billions & the White House connection: The American company appointed to advise the US government on the economic reconstruction of Iraq has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars into Republican Party coffers
http://tinyurl.com/y76r92

DID YOU KNOW

-Bush is spending our tax dollars -- like a dry drunk sailor --to benefit war profiteers.

-Bush just connected Iraq to 9/11 again, and the media will not tell you it was
a lie,"

-Bush Breaks 150-Year History of No Higher US Taxes in Wartime

-Bush answers a country demanding an exit
strategy from the Iraq war, by offering an entrance strategy for an Iran war

-Opposition to Iraq Plan Leaves Bush Isolated

-Republicans on Panel Back President's Plan, Masking Divisions

-Experts doubt Iraqis can make Bush plan work:

-Six Senators both parties Back Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Cuts

ELECTION ITEMS

Most of the panel, in a two way race between the two leading candidates, prefer Hillary Clinton the Democrat over John McCain
http://tinyurl.com/vuuts