January 18, 2007

Read to keep up with some of the news out there:

My question, Mr. President: If God asked you to bombard, invade and occupy Iraq for four years, why did he send an opposite message to the Pope? (Geo. McGovern)

Failure is Not an Option! It Comes Standard on Every Bush Model!

Hangings Fuel Sectarian Split Across Middle East

Christian Conservatives Fight Ethics Bill

The Senate says no to increasing of U.S. troops

Military officials in occupied Afghanistan are proposing a surge of their own. Cost $6B

Denial of habeas corpus right for detainees to be repealed by Democratic Congress

GOP Favors Giuliani, McCain - McCain Leads Republican Field, Obama holds slight edge over Clinton and Edwards in tight Dem battle

Bill Would Require Congress Approval to Increase US Troops in Iraq

Protesters' Names in Pentagon Database

Amid Bloodshed, Bush Wants a 'Thank You'...(Gad!)

The Cornucopia Institute: Organic Fraud: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Accused of Widespread Distortion Nonorganic Food Products Misidentified as "Organic"

Chinese sent up a ballistic missile to destroy an ageing weather satellite. (US premise - He who rules space rules the earth - oops!)

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday warned federal judges not to meddle in cases involving national security (Arrogance to the hilt!!!)

Americans continue having difficulties paying their mortgage obligations, with December foreclosure rates above the 100,000 mark for the fifth straight month

In an economic and housing outlook, Fannie Mae said sales of new homes are expected to drop by 7.1% in 2007, while sales of existing homes are expected to drop 8.1% this year.

Resignations at Federal Election Commission Raise Concern
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is creating a special committee to recommend legislation to cut greenhouse gases.

Data supplied by tobacco companies strongly suggest that in recent years manufacturers deliberately boosted nicotine levels in cigarettes to more effectively hook smokers, (Harvard researchers).

Pentagon has drafted a manual for upcoming detainee trials that would allow suspected terrorists to be convicted on hearsay evidence and coerced testimony and imprisoned or put to death.

Bush Administration Sources Have Confirmed that Cheney Was Kept Informed of Secret Peace Negotiations Between Israel and Syria.

Kucinich, Sanders Want to Bring Back Fairness Doctrine
Bush Retreats on Use of Executive Power - to submit his warrantless-surveillance program to the jurisdiction of a special intelligence court

71 Employees in Bush's Office Owe $660,000 in Back Taxes

Democrats Target Royalty Breaks for Oil Firms

A Newsweek poll a while back said that 51 percent of Americans want Bush impeached and 44 percent do not. That's about double the support there was for impeaching Clinton when it was in the news every single day.

Thursday is the worst day of the week to be admitted into a hospital. Monday is the most stressful day of the week, resulting in fatal jumps in blood pressure. Being admitted on a Saturday (5.5 days) or Sunday was associated with the shortest hospital stays.

Deaths attributed to medication errors rise by as much as 25 percent above normal in the first few days of every month, because there isn't enough staff to handle the beginning-of-the-month spike in prescriptions.
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2 U.S. Attorneys Quit, Critics Say Bush Forced Them Out: Two U.S. Attorneys in California announced they are stepping down, as critics alleged political pressure from the Bush administration was pushing them and others out of their jobs.http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=state&id=4944075

Video: Sen. Diane Feinstein blows the whistle on yet another Bush power grab: Watch and tremble -fear for the future of Democracy, Due Process of Law, freedom itself:http://tinyurl.com/2m6gyy

Law Groups Want Pentagon Official Firedhttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0117-03.htm

One Small Step for Sanity - a Bipartisan Senate Measure Confronts Bush Over Iraq.

Bernanke warns of threat to US prosperity: Fed chairman Ben Bernanke warned in stark terms on Thursday of the long-term threat to US prosperity posed by the soaring cost of unfunded entitlement programmes such as Medicare and Social Security.http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ff4eeb60-a6ff-11db-83e4-0000779e2340.html

Methodist Ministers try to stop SMU from landing Bush library, "believe that the linking of his presidency with a university bearing the Methodist name is utterly inappropriate." The Shame of Guantanamo Exposed in Cuba
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0117-20.htm

US housing bust getting worse, warns Goldman Sachs: The US Federal Reserve will need to slash interest rates three times this year as the housing slump goes from bad to worse and the American consumer begins to buckle, Goldman Sachs has warned. "Americans have shown a complete lack of self-control. The personal savings rate is at its lowest point ever, and has actually been negative since April 2005. http://tinyurl.com/wtbvd

Bush and the Psychology of Incompetent DecisionsAccording to John P. Briggs, MD, and J.P. Briggs II, PhD, President George W. Bush prides himself on "making tough decisions." But many are sensing something seriously troubling, even psychologically unbalanced, about the president as a decision-maker. They are right. Because of a psychological dynamic swirling around deeply hidden feelings of inadequacy, the president has been driven to make increasingly incompetent and risky decisions. This dynamic makes the psychological stakes for him now unimaginably high. The words "success" and "failure" have seized his rhetoric like metaphors for his psyche's survival.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807J.shtml

According to legend, Iran's President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, "Israel must be wiped off the map". Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, as this article will prove. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16218.htm