Have you ever heard of that phrase? Do you think that the failures of "Brownie" and George Bush were an accident of simple stupidity? Well, think again.
For those of you who haven't heard the phrase "Starve the Beast" ... and I hadn't either ... until I heard Thom Hartmann ( http://www.thomhartmann.com/ ) discuss the history of how and why "Common Wisdom" holds that governments "CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT!" ... this phrase has its origins in "Conservative" thinkers ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast . (Personally, I consider them domestic terrorists..)
Please follow the embedded links and follow their trails.
Here's one: Grover Norquist ...."My goal is to cut government is half in 25 years to get it down to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub" ...
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
U.S. and European Corporations are HELPING Iran Jail Protesters...
And .... believe it or not .... it could happen here too.
Check this out: http://www.alternet.org/story/140894/
This should particularly upset my 'Red State' friends and family.
Check this out: http://www.alternet.org/story/140894/
This should particularly upset my 'Red State' friends and family.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
MORE Hypocrites are Flushed Into the Open
Notice a trend here?
Republican Hypocrites like Fallwell, Gingrich, Larry Craig and others LITERALLY .... impeached Bill Clinton for a lesser "offense" than ANY of them committed .... And, now this "Promise Keeper", Sen. John Ensign-R (NV):
And then came Gov. Mark Sanford:
Republican Hypocrites like Fallwell, Gingrich, Larry Craig and others LITERALLY .... impeached Bill Clinton for a lesser "offense" than ANY of them committed .... And, now this "Promise Keeper", Sen. John Ensign-R (NV):
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Extortion, Bribery, Payoffs? You decide.And then came Gov. Mark Sanford:
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Diplomacy ... As in: How to be a diplomat
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Proscecutorial Misconduct & Don Siegelman
Please join 75 state Attorneys General in urging Eric Holder to investigate prosecutorial misconduct in the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
Professor Bennett Gershman of Pace University School of Law, the preeminent scholar in the field of prosecutorial misconduct, who wrote the book, "Prosecutorial Misconduct", said: "I have never encountered another prosecution in which it appears so clearly that the prosecutors were zealously bent on pursuing an individual, rather than on a crime...As an example of bad faith prosecution, the Siegelman case may be without parallel."
"There is no better example of the corrosive effect on the reputation of the Department of Justice...than the prosecution of Don Siegelman."
And the retired Chief U.S. District Court Judge in the Northern District of Alabama, U.W. Clemon said: the Siegelman case in the Northern District "was the most unfounded criminal case over which I have presided in my entire judicial career." The case was "completely without legal merit."
Please urge Attorney General Holder to investigate the prosecutorial misconduct in the Siegelman case and end this outrageous injustice.
Areas of misconduct in the Siegelman case include:
- Prosecuted for something that has never been a crime.
- Selectively prosecuted.
- Witnesses were coached, false testimony given and evidence withheld.
- Brought to trial one month before the Democratic Primary.
- The prosecutor is the wife of Karl Rove's best friend and Siegelman's opponent's campaign manager!
- Sworn testimony that Karl Rove was involved.
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5180/t/3541/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2726
Professor Bennett Gershman of Pace University School of Law, the preeminent scholar in the field of prosecutorial misconduct, who wrote the book, "Prosecutorial Misconduct", said: "I have never encountered another prosecution in which it appears so clearly that the prosecutors were zealously bent on pursuing an individual, rather than on a crime...As an example of bad faith prosecution, the Siegelman case may be without parallel."
"There is no better example of the corrosive effect on the reputation of the Department of Justice...than the prosecution of Don Siegelman."
And the retired Chief U.S. District Court Judge in the Northern District of Alabama, U.W. Clemon said: the Siegelman case in the Northern District "was the most unfounded criminal case over which I have presided in my entire judicial career." The case was "completely without legal merit."
Please urge Attorney General Holder to investigate the prosecutorial misconduct in the Siegelman case and end this outrageous injustice.
Areas of misconduct in the Siegelman case include:
- Prosecuted for something that has never been a crime.
- Selectively prosecuted.
- Witnesses were coached, false testimony given and evidence withheld.
- Brought to trial one month before the Democratic Primary.
- The prosecutor is the wife of Karl Rove's best friend and Siegelman's opponent's campaign manager!
- Sworn testimony that Karl Rove was involved.
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5180/t/3541/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2726
Monday, June 8, 2009
Obama's "Apology Tour"
In case you didn't see President Obama's speech to the Muslim world last week but have listened to FOX, or "Rush" or any number of the "pundits" out there who claim that his speech was part of an apology tour I invite you to actually READ the entire speech:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/
Or, you can view it yourself:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/
Or, you can view it yourself:
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
After All These Years: Sadam and 9/11 ... Tenant Did IT!!! ...
OMFG, after all these years that he INSISTED that Sadam was at the center of 9/11 LISTEN to what Cheney says about him June 2009:
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BREAKING NEWS: 6/03/09: Now, Cheney blames 9/11 on Richard Clark ... though you'll have to be a little patient while he defends gay marriage before you get to his statements about "Dick Clark". It's worth it though:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=228988&title=dick-uncut
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