January 8, 2007

THE THINKING SPOT

"The idea of creating systems designed to threaten, coerce, and kill, and to imbue such agencies with principled legitimacy, and not expect them to lead to wars, genocides, and other tyrannical practices, expresses an innocence we can no longer afford to indulge." - Butler D. Shaffer Professor, Southwestern University School of Law June 9, 2003

How About Term Limits for the Entire Executive Branch?.....In a debate against Robert Novak I predicted that, after the Democrats captured the Congress, Pres. Bush would provoke a Constitutional crisis by refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas.
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ALERT

It's Bush Against Experts, the World and Reality. Remember, He's a Sociopath. He Thrives on Failure and Causing Harm to Others.

Taxman to get bugging and phone-tap powers - TAX inspectors are to be given new powers allowing them to tap taxpayers’ telephones and plant bugs inside their homes and offices.
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DUMB BUSHISM

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." —Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002

PONDER THIS

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." —Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002

THE FUNNY BONE CORNER

DOCTORS
A Japanese doctor says, "Medicine in my country is so Advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in Another, and have him looking for work in six weeks."
A German doctor says, "That is nothing, we can take a lung Out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work In four weeks."
British doctor says, "In my country, medicine is so advanced That we can take half of a heart out of one person, put it in Another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks."
The Texas doctor, not to be outdone, interjected "You guys Are way behind. We took a man with no brains out of Texas; put him In the White House and now half the country is looking for work.

WAR
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If a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.": Charles Eliot Norton - (1827-1908) American educator, writer, and editor who founded the Nation (1865)
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POLITICS
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Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the goals, which they serve.: Eric Fromm
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DID YOU KNOW

-Pelosi Hints at Denying Bush Iraq Funds

-Iraq's oil reserves, are the third-largest in the world

-2 ways to stop Bush, no money, impeachment

-1,000 PEOPLE SPELL OUT "IMPEACH!" IN PELOSI'S DISTRICT

-Bush Moves to Completely Revamp US Nuclear Arsenal

-Israel Plans Nuclear Strike on Iran

-Hoyer and Dems Set Stage for Iran Attack

-Condoleezza Rice gave S.Hussein to Iraq to be
hung before year's end. (US in control totally)

-Blair faces unpretty challenge over Saudi arms deal (much bribery used)

-Gen. Wesley Clark predicts Bush's Plan To Increase Troops Will Backfire

-The Iraq war is like a frontal lobotomy - they don't know what is going on, have never known

- the National Rifle Association is being pressured to distance itself from President Bush's energy policies (opened more public land for oil and gas drilling and limited access to hunters and anglers).

-CIA may block outed Plame agent's book

-90 per cent of Iraqis believe the country is worse off now than before the war in 2003

-US major Cisco Systems to shift 20% of top brass to India

ECONOMY

Mortgage Lenders Network stops loans, sets layoffs - Mortgage Lenders Network USA, a large U.S. subprime lender, said it has stopped funding loans and accepting applications for loans, citing deteriorating conditions in the mortgage market, and has temporarily laid off about 80 percent of its 1,800 employees.
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The Three Hundred And Fifty Billion Dollar Lynch Mob - And to add insult to injury, thanks to Bush the dollar has slid so far since 2000 that if you want to leave the USA and travel or live somewhere else, your net worth is basically half what it was six or seven years back.
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CONGRESS

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"The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of the people." David Edwards - British columnist - Source: Burning All Illusions, 1996
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Dems to Hold 11 Separate Hearings on Iraq War.....In this new era of divided government, the congressional hearing room is where the executive and legislative branches will clash. Over the next few weeks, Senate Democrats plan to hold at least 11 hearings just on Iraq. In the House, one of the Democrats' most dogged investigators is waiting to spring his committee on a different mission - suspected government fraud.
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Democrats rename 5 House committees -Republicans swept into power in that year's midterm elections had created their own monikers for several committees. As part of the rules changes adopted this week, Democrats reclaimed the old names for several committee and created a new name for one other panel:
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DOMESTIC

Suspicious truck stopped at the Port of Miami-Dade
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