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It’s difficult to tell by the mainstream media’s coverage of his most recent video.  I’ve seen Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan all analyze his latest message by drawing comparisons between his statements and those of Democrats.  More than four years since Osama murdered thousands of Americans, the right-leaning paid babblers seem to care less that he’s still making videos at all.  To them this guy is no longer a murderer.

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“I pledge allegience, to the flag, of the War Profiteers of America. And to the stock prices, for which it stands, one portifolio, under Armed Conflict, indivisible, with dividends and waterfront property for some.”

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It’s a new site that aims to do with blogs what Ebay did with online auctions. The categories are vast, and the user base is expanding. In the future they intend to compensate users with consumer credits or cash, but the true draw for me is the wide range of users (all age groups, interests, etc.) and the site’s useability. I encourage all of you to check it out!

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Some of these GOP Congressmen…you give them something for free, they’ll join your religion, hawk your products, help you get rid of a body…

Ohio Rep. Robert Ney personally lobbied the then Secretary of State Colin Powell to relax U.S. sanctions on Iran. Who asked him to? A convicted airplane broker who had just taken the congressman and a top aide on an expense-paid trip to London, NEWSWEEK has learned. Ney’s lawyer confirmed to NEWSWEEK that federal prosecutors have subpoenaed records on Ney’s February 2003 trip paid for by Nigel Winfield, a thrice-convicted felon who ran a company in Cyprus called FN Aviation. Winfield was seeking to sell U.S.-made airplane spare parts to the Iranian government—a deal that would have needed special permits because of U.S. sanctions against Tehran. Continue reading →

“You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you’d like to have in the future” – Donald Rumsfeld
“You go to war with the Laws you have, not the Laws you’d like to have in the future” – Chris Austin

Right wing talking points are now bouncing around in defense of President Bush’s decision to ignore federal law by allowing the NSA to illegally eavesdrop on taxpaying Americans, that invoke an idea that Clinton essentially did the same thing and how the press gave Clinton a pass as opposed to what the NYTimes did to Bush by breaking the story. To the true-believer this will suffice, but in fact, all this argument aims to do is trick us into viewing this three story colonial house as only a one story bungalow. Continue reading →

Despite signaling that it would no longer tap the Individual Ready Reserve, the Army calls up more troops just in time for the holidays.

My father was at the house for Christmas and in the spirit of nostalgia, beers, whiskey or whatever, we sat down at the table and talked politics into the AM hours. I brought up IRR and stop-loss…his response was, “we’ve got an all volunteer military”. Saying that once either of these retention options are exercised, the individual is no longer a volunteer, he pointed out that everyone signed on the dotted line and the fine print is part of the contract. To me this argument has always sounded like a way of calling the soldier a sucker, without actually saying it. Continue reading →

For this first ever awarding of the ‘Itchy’, I felt the honor had to go to someone special. A person who truly represents the values and foot-in-mouth qualities the award is all about. So without futher adieu, the envelope please…AND THE ITCHY GOES TO…HARRY BELAFONTE!!!

Harry could not be here to accept this award, unfortunately, he’s down in Columbia today encouraging coca farmers to “Keep up the good work, America is behind you 100%!”

For more on Harry, and why he’s been honored here at deadissue as the Itching Hemorrhoid of the Month, click on this link:

Harry Belafonte calls Bush ‘terrorist,’ praises Chavez in Venezuela

Ah…credibility, the tragically jealous mistress that she is, has just informed the Bush Administration that their indescretion(s) from early 2001 produced a child. As anti-abortion as this man is, the question now is whether or not he’ll attempt to change course and propose authorizing elimination in the 6th trimester. National security after all, so crucial to our survival, with enemies all around sporting not only more money, but larger militaries as well, it should be obvious to everyone why Bush launched his illegal domestic wiretapping PRIOR TO 9/11. Of course, from the ranch he deemed it necessary to get serious about terrorism. Between bike rides and photo ops, he came up with the idea of somehow turning America into a police state. Bravo! Constitution be damned, we elected a KING in 2000, whether we like it or not!

According to the online magazine Slate, an unnamed official in the telecom industry said NSA’s “efforts to obtain call details go back to early 2001, predating the 9/11 attacks and the president’s now celebrated secret executive order. The source reports that the NSA approached U.S. carriers and asked for their cooperation in a ‘data-mining’ operation, which might eventually cull ‘millions’ of individual calls and e-mails.”

Sock it to meeee?!?!

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Bush Tries to Escape

Instead of having the American people vote in primaries, that unfairly exclude voters in states where the date is weeks after Iowa and New Hampshire, go back to the system where delegates meet and decide on a candidate at the convention. ‘One person one vote’ having dropped itself back into the news cycle after a typically long hiatus, I thought it was only right to give it a twirl before it’s once again covered in moth balls. Why does a voter in Iowa have more of a say in who represents my party in a Presidential race than I do? Continue reading →

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I’m not concerned with the false sense of hope the miners’ families felt prior to learning that they were all dead, nor am I concerned with any other side issue or expose done up on what any of those miners left behind, what their last words to their wife were the morning of, or for how long their children cried once they knew daddy was never coming home. A coal mining company donated heavily to the Bush-Cheney campaign, saw a subsequent change in the regulatory strength of the government, and ignored safety issues raised by inspectors because they knew the operation wouldn’t be shut down. The company didn’t care about its workers then, and all the teary-eyed news reports in the world aren’t going to change their opinion now. This is business. Continue reading →

I was delighted to receive a Sirius Satelite radio and subscription on Christmas eve(is it still legal to say Christmas?) so I could hear the Indianapolis/Seattle game that could not be found anywhere on TV. Odd that the numbers 1 and 2 teams in the NFL, respectively, were playing such a critical game and it couldn’t be found anywhere, but I will get to that shortly. I didn’t get the best radio but it came with both the home and car base stations which is great but, as a subscriber, I can also stream from Sirius via Microsoft Monopoly Player…er…I mean, Media Player 9. Continue reading →

Expect a few more open seats come election time 2006. Harry Reid and Byron Dorgan are the only two Democrats on watch right now that I know of (Harkin possibly as well). On the other side of the asile it’s Blunt, Delay, Ney, Doolittle, Cornyn, Cochran, Cantor, Burns, Ensign, Feeley, Grassley, Hassert, Hayworth, Lott, Istook, Sessions, Vitter, Wicker…

Then you’ve also got the right-wing special interests and think tanks wraped up in this. Ralph Reed is the the person of note for me on this score, because he took money that came from gambling, hypocrite!

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Maybe I’m a conspiracy theorist about this CAFTA agreement, probably have been since day one. To me the strategy from a competition standpoint was to get as many fast food fanchises set up all over Central and South America as possible, then wait 20 years. Let the 99 cent menus of Jack in the Box, KFC and Arby’s do their thing. Throw in vaccines at a discount. Continue reading →