Excellent article Theo. I've been attempting to talk about similar things in a different thread to no avail.

LOVE IT!
 

i saw this plan... fact is great... you know he is too dumb to stay in the country forever!

GENEVA -- Activists vowed yesterday that former President George W. Bush would face a torture case against him whenever he travels outside the United States.
Human-rights groups had planned to lodge a Swiss criminal case against Bush yesterday, before his address to a Jewish charity in Geneva on Feb. 12. Organizers canceled his speech last weekend, invoking security concerns.
But the Manhattan-based Center for Constitutional Rights and the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights issued what they called a preliminary "indictment" to prosecute Bush abroad for the alleged torture of terrorism suspects in US custody.
http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2011...1--300x300.jpg GEORGE W. BUSH
Travel warning.


"This is our way of putting him on notice," said Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Half Of GOP Primary Voters Wrongly Say Obama Non-U.S. Born: Poll

Yeah, still.

In other areas, they are getting what they want. Think about the watered down health care bill as an example. Talk about shooting yerself in the foot! Again, I think about the lack of critical thinking taught in schools ... :|

Maybe he'll try to cross the border into Canada and we can nab him!

:D

and no repudiation (or refudiation -- haha) from Rep. Brown (R)
 

Losing Our Way
 

I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this, but Bob Hebert's last column for the NY Times pretty much sums up the state of affairs in the U.S. for me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/op...2N+ogOC9Y%2FVQ

Conservative Think Tank Seeks Michigan Profs' Emails About Wisconsin Union Battle ... And Maddow

Just like in Wisconsin. Crazier and crazier.

From Bob Herbert's last post, Losing Our Way, in the N.Y. Times (Thanks Bulldog for the heads up), these words in particular caught my attention:

It has been my observation that the majority of the wars our nation has engaged in since WWII are in some way tied to corporate greed. I believe that old standby line about helping other nations find freedom & democracy is code for "let's make them safe for our corporations to go into & exploit the people & the land for the sake of profit & more profit".

Call me cynical if you like, but it is from my years of being an observer of national & international politics over a long period of time that I've come to that conclusion. Over that same period of time, I've been busy in my professional life working in non-profit agencies to deliver healthcare & mental health services to youngsters & their families, whose lives have been stuck in generational poverty, mental illness, various addictions, domestic violence and child abuse. All problems that increase during times of economic recession.

I absolutely agree PumaJ. Just think what the position our country and citizens could be in if we spent only a fraction of what we have spent on war on education and social services instead. Also, a well-educated and healthy citizenry makes for a better workforce and consumers with money to spend.

I read this article earlier this morning and was disturbed by what I read. My thought was "If you are not scared, you should be." Now if we could only FOIA for corporate, private sector emails from the banks, Wall Street, and others.

One for you, Seven for me.

Bristol Palin’s Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Her mommy learned her up real good!

Almost half of Mississippi Republicans would ban interracial marriage
 

Americans nationwide are evenly divided over the issue of same sex marriage.

But Republicans in Mississippi are divided over a wholly different wedlock issue: interracial marriage.

In a PPP poll released Thursday, a 46% plurality of registered Republican voters said they thought interracial marriage was not just wrong, but that it should be illegal. 40% said interracial marriage should be legal.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...al.php?ref=fpb

LOL Corkey, that is what the anti-gay rights, anti civil right folks are saying about the progress us queers are making!!!

This is my first visit to this thread. There is SO MUCH head spinning political shit going on right now that I feel like I have whip lash EVERY day! I am pretty old and have been interested in politics my whole life and can remember nothing like the shit that is going on now. Amazing! Horrifying! Head Spinning!
Smooches,
Keri

maybe this will be the end of him
 

Mike Huckabee Says He Wants Americans To Be Indoctrinated At Gunpoint

I dunno, guns and America as a christian nation sounds to me like a recipe for sweeping the republican primaries - those folks love their guns and their god. The vision of liberals being forced to watch Barton at gunpoint is probably better than porn for some of them.