Clinton Says Climate Change World's Biggest Worry

Earth President Clinton Has a List: "'First, I worry about climate change,' Clinton said in an onstage conversation with the founder of the World Economic Forum. 'It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible.'"

...and...

Former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans was listening. "He's a great performer and then he's got the greatest convening power of anyone now in the world, I think, and the greatest capacity to articulate things that matter," said Evans, who now heads the International Crisis Group, a think tank.

...and...

"One of the politically correct things in American politics ... is we just don't talk to some people that we don't like, particularly if they ever killed anybody in a way that we hate," he said. "I do think that if you've got enough self-confidence in who you are and what you believe in, you ought not to be scared to talk to anybody." "You've got to find a way to at least open doors ... and I don't see how we can do it without more contact," he said. Hamas might "acquire a greater sense of responsibility, and as they do we have to be willing to act on that."

It is incredibly unfortunate for the world that Bill Clinton is not the President of the United States. He is the finest leader on the planet. George W. Bush is the very worst leader we could have at this moment. We may not survive this tragedy.

Why I Don't Support Our Troop Leader

Nobody - not even the most pale-faced indoor liberal expected the gigantic debacle of Bush's federal response to the Katrina disaster. For almost everyone who watched in horror as the crises metastasized before our eyes on television screens everywhere, the man who is President was seen to be completely unprepared and stupefyingly incompetent in providing for the safety of Americans during a crises. The ramifications and implications were felt by all American parents as they looked at each other across the dinner table and as they lay awake in the wee hours of the morning worrying for their families and wondering where they can now put their trust.

Bush and Company have pushed the entire region of the Mid-East into embracing Western democracy and now it is clear that, thanks to Bush wisdom, the most ugly aspects of Arab fundamentalism will prevail in the elections in almost every country in the region.

George W. Bush has sent 2000 men and women to their death based on false information and the most flawed and stupid war plan ever concocted by adults. He disbanded the Iraqi army and now has nobody to turn the country over to so Americans can stop dying and come home. He tells Americans that our Constitution and our democracy are special, sacred elements of our national success and that these qualities would be advantageous for any nation. After railing time and again that the United Nations is not capable of acting credibly or with the values that are important to Americans, he then turns around and suggests that the U.N. be the entity to create a new constitution for Iraq because "they are good at that sort of thing." Is it any wonder that our supposed allies within the Iraqi expatriates publicly humiliated our President by admitting that they lied to him about the pre-war Iraqi situation in order to get him to go to war against Saddam Hussein?

The Bush revamp of senior's drug coverage is a stupendous travesty of what a caring government can do. It is a botched endeavor that is currently scaring hundreds of thousands of Americans as they try to navigate the tortured logic of this "crazy money-making" privatization of one of the nation's most important federal programs - with consequences deep into the families of America. It is a cash-raising scheme by the healthcare industry that is well-known to be more costly than that which it replaces. But no matter, because the Bush mentality says that the Unites States government has no business helping with healthcare in the first place.

The American voter did not want Bush to be President. We know it; he knows it. Nonetheless, on becoming President in 2001, he embarked on a right-wing course of action in almost every area of government under his influence. Acting without an iota of respect for the desires of the voting people of America is not the action of a decent man.

"Dead or Alive", said the President. "Mission Accomplished", said the sign. "Stay the course", said the man with yet another wound on his face. "I choked on a pretzel and fell on the floor", said the fallen leader as he explained still yet another face wound.

What kind of American am I? What kind of American are you? What kind of American is George W. Bush?

There is no argument available that can successfully deny that Bush is a crook, a liar, a fraud, and an incomplete man.

I want Bush impeached and then put on trial. And then I want to grab a broom and help sweep these germs out of our life.

Long live my country !

Harmful Teflon Chemical To Be Eliminated by 2015

Am I Missing Something Or Is This A Major Health Crises?: "a key processing agent in making nonstick and stain-resistant materials -- has been linked to cancer and birth defects in animals and is in the blood of 95 percent of Americans, including pregnant women. It has also been found in the blood of marine organisms and Arctic polar bears."

"DuPont reached a $16.5 million settlement with EPA over the company's failure to report possible health risks associated with PFOA.

Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy organization. "As harshly as we have singled out DuPont for criticism for its past handling of PFOA pollution, today we want to single out and commend the company and acknowledge its leadership going forward."

How prosaic. They have agreed to stop knowingly poisoning the public.

Wagnerian Bluffs Lead To Wagnerian Results

Brilliant Move By Bush Leads To Terrorist Gains: "Islamic fundamentalists who oppose U.S. interests in the Middle East have benefited from the U.S. policy of promoting democracy, making significant gains in recent elections.
Hamas is the latest to rise. Its likely strong showing in Palestinian parliamentary elections today poses a dilemma for the United States and Israel, which refuse to deal with a group responsible for numerous suicide bombings.
Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East expert at the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, says the United States has pressured Egypt, Iraq and the Palestinian territories to hold free elections. 'The pro-democracy effort has had the actual effect of strengthening fundamentalist movements,' Katzman says."

...and...

"Washington miscalculated in pushing for the vote, as part of its pro-democracy campaign in the Arab world, she said. "The Americans insisted on having the election now, so they have to respect the results of the election, as we all do," she said.

Bush is as smart as a whip. A very small whip.

The American psyche: all about honesty, and completely contrived

Either the Republicans Go Or I Do "Oscar Wilde, no stranger to memoir - though he actually did hard time while writing his heartbreaking De Profundis - decried American art because of its tedious obsession with veracity. A tendency he traced to George Washington, with his stirring tale of chopping down a cherry tree, then declaring he couldn't lie about it. The anecdote, Wilde noted, perfectly exemplifies the American psyche: all about honesty, and completely contrived."

Gods 'A Poppin'

S.F. Calling; Paul Kantner Here... Come In !!!: "I make fun of people who are religious, because I think they're fundamentally weak. But I want you to know that on a personal level, when it comes to believing in God, I tried. I really, really tried. I tried to believe that there is a God, who created us in his own image, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. I tried to believe it. But I have to tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize... something is fucked.

Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong.

If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the resume of a supreme being. This is the kind of stuff you'd expect from an office temp with a bad attitude. In any well-managed universe, this guy would have been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago.

So. if there is a God - if there is - I think reasonable people might agree that he's at least incompetent and maybe, just maybe, he doesn't give a shit. Which I admire in a person, and which would explain a lot of his results."

God is about whatever you need God to be about, but it is always all about words.

Warriors and wusses

Los Angeles Times: "If you think invading Iraq was a good idea, then by all means, support away. Load up on those patriotic magnets and bracelets and other trinkets the Chinese are making money off of.

But I'm not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken - and they're wussy by definition."


"Besides, those little yellow ribbons aren't really for the troops... The real purpose of those ribbons is to ease some of the guilt we feel for voting to send them to war and then making absolutely no sacrifices..."

I have been shouted at, argued with, and both casually and heatedly dismissed for believing that "the Universal soldier really is to blame, for without him there would be no war". I have often tried to reconsider the message of this thought, but always I end up re-understanding the absolute truth of this statement, and again resolving to see clearly the insidious evil of those who lead these men to battle. When I forced the ROTC at Hollywood High School to release me from "duty", I did so with an embryonic understanding of this eternal truth.

Flashlights Up Your Ass

Searching for Searches: "Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test, it's possible that the information could lead to further investigations and, perhaps, subpoenas to find out who was doing the searching. What if certain search terms indicated that people were contemplating terrorist actions or other criminal activities? Says the DOJ's Miller, 'I'm assuming that if something raised alarms, we would hand it over to the proper [authorities].' "

They will turn over anything that they find to be illegal because it is a crime not to report a crime. Get it?

Bush Lends Abortion Opponents His Support

Bush Lends Abortion Opponents His Support: "President Bush told abortion opponents Monday that they are pursuing 'a noble cause' and predicted that their views would prevail eventually.
'We're working to persuade more of our fellow Americans of the rightness of our cause,' the president told abortion foes gathered at the foot of Capitol Hill on a chilly, rainy day. He spoke by telephone from Manhattan, Kan., where he gave a speech.

'This is a cause that appeals to the conscience of our citizens and is rooted in America's deepest principles,' the president said. 'And history tells us that with such a cause we will prevail.'

More Fristicuffs

These Horrific Assholes Know The Fear They Are Bringing To American Women: "Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told Republican Party activists on Friday night that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito was the 'worst nightmare of liberal Democrats.'

Frist, a Tennessee Republican, made the remark to fellow Republicans during a private tour he gave them of the Senate chamber when the Senate was not in session.

Frist was not available for comment following his remarks."

The sactimonious glee is palpable.

Hide witch, hide.
The good folks come to burn thee.
Their keen enjoyment hid behind
A Gothic mask of duty
(Kantner, Slick, Covington 1970)

'New World' boldly explores new cinematic territory

'New World' tells the story of Pocahontas in riveting fashion.: "Bale does that impossible thing -- he makes goodness look interesting. "

Ah gee, it's nice to take a little break from the deluge and think of pleasantries we will all once again commonly enjoy, down the road and after the enemy's blood covers the wall.

Another Undescended Ball of the Republican Party

Why Are the Righties So Scared?: "Republicans have a post-9/11 worldview _ and many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview,' Rove told Republican activists. 'That doesn't make them unpatriotic, not at all. But it does make them wrong _ deeply and profoundly and consistently wrong.' "

Wouldn't you like to pull his drapes?

Bride of the Unsane Cuts Another One

Peggy "I knew the REAL Ron Reagan" Noonan: "The snarly tone the senators took with a man (Alito) most Americans could look at and think, 'He's like me,' and the charges they made--You oppose women and minorities, you only like corporations and not the little guy--went nowhere. Once those charges would have taken flight, would have launched, found their target and knocked down any incoming Republican. Not any more. It's over."

It is not absolutely clear that most Americans think "Alito is like me!" But this bunker-maid says whatever drifts into her net.

"The other night George Clooney, that beautiful airhead, made a Golden Globe speech in which he made an off-color reference to Jack Abramoff. The audience seemed confused, as people apparently often are when George Clooney speaks."

This is one dizzy sister. Oh brother, where art thou?

Fact check: the Republican party is dripping with silly Hollywood political deviants such as Sonny Bono, Ronald Reagan, Fred Thompson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Peggy Noonan adores Peggy Noonan. This testy little sybil, with her large text deposits, keeps the weeping righties content in their illusions of righteousness and glory. If only she would keep it to herself.

But no. She wants to be a singer.

She hears her words in the key of god and knows that within each carefully enjoyed vowel the force of the saviour protects the eternal truth she is revealing.

She also likes NYC fireman. Really likes NYC fireman.

Fascist Republicans Want Your Google Search Records

They want into your house to look around and there's nothing you can do about it: "``This is exactly the kind of case that privacy advocates have long feared,'' said Ray Everett-Church, a South Bay privacy consultant. ``The idea that these massive databases are being thrown open to anyone with a court document is the worst-case scenario. If they lose this fight, consumers will think twice about letting Google deep into their lives.''"

Get their names, log their coordinates, and wait.

Republican Big Government All Over Your Family

Supreme Court Affirms Abortion Law: "Alito was questioned extensively last week during his Senate confirmation hearing about his views on abortion, including the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that declared abortion a fundamental constitutional right. He steadfastly refused to agree with assertions by Democrats that Roe v. Wade is 'settled law.' "

This Republican guy is a disaster ready to frighten and harm hundreds of thousands of women.

I have no need for this hypothesis

"Intelligent Design means that everything I can't explain is done by God: "'I have no need for this hypothesis,' Pierre-Simon Laplace's famous retort after getting grilled by Napoleon for not mentioning God in his mathematical masterwork Mecanique Celeste (Celestial Mechanics)."

His dad was a down and dirty plumber who didn't like that his son had decided not to be a plumber himself.
"The tough guy looked at me and said, 'What the—do you mean, you're not going to be an engineer? What are you going to be—a ballet dancer?' I said, 'I want to be something else, a physicist.'
" 'Physicist? Physicist? What the hell is a physicist?' . . . I held my ground and answered, 'It's a kind of scientist.' . . . I was not sure that I could explain so I took a shortcut. I said, 'A scientist like Einstein.'
" 'Einstein?' he said. 'Yeah, Einstein.' For a full minute he stood silent, in deep thought. Then he said, 'Are you any good at this stuff?'"

Will Congress take action on assisted suicide?

Will Congress take action on assisted suicide? - Tom Curry - MSNBC.com: "'This administration has been more willing than others in the recent past to take statutory language and read it aggressively.'"

"Physician-assisted suicide is not “deeply rooted” in American laws, but it is at least “rooted” in one state and conservatives want to outlaw it before it does become deeply rooted nationwide."

I have all manner of conflicting thoughts on this issue.

"I believe this is the class that the Lord wanted me to teach", says gall drenched cracker

California School Cuts One For The Righties: "When a religion-based alternative to evolution was introduced into a high school class in Lebec taught by a preacher's wife, the discussion moved from classroom to courtroom.

'It's trying to impose a religious perspective on the curriculum,' said Jim Lowery, a wilderness survival instructor. 'People can have a religious perspective, but don't say it's science.'"

Zeus created the heavens, Thor built some stuff for the Vikings, the Pope is infallible, Jesus got resurrected, and every inch of the world faces a constant flow of oozing never-ending bullshit, slewing forth from unbounded acres of moronic gods, godettes, fakers, magicians and ceaseless makers of untruth and of death.

Why We Don't Celebrate Peter King Day

Republicans will let us know when it's time for us to speak: Clinton got an easy question. “I need you to tell us what distinguishes Democrats from Republicans right now,” she was asked.

Clinton's answer was provocative.

"'When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I'm talking about...'

Some House Republicans took immediate offense at Senator Clinton's choice of words.

Said Republican Congressman Peter King, of Long Island, 'It's always wrong to play the race card for political gain by using a loaded word like plantation. But it is particularly wrong to do so on Martin Luther King Day.'"

Republicans want to control your wife's and your daughter's uterus. If your highest priority isn't to stop that from happening, then you are a valueless cretin deserving of no quarter.

When I Was A Boy I Watched The Wolves...

Ralph Reed Uses His Face Like A Paw Full Of Claws: After Reed first entered national politics as executive director of the Christian Coalition, he described to the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot his tactics in mobilizing Christian conservatives to sway elections: "I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night."

"You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night."

Down by the dark, cool, waterside...

Oh That Rusky Bluster

Steamed about Rice, Russian pol unleashes rant: "'If she has no man by her side at her age, he will never appear,' Zhirinovsky ranted on. 'Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers. She needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied.
'Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention,' he added. 'Such women are very rough... They can be happy only when they are talked and written about everywhere: 'Oh, Condoleezza, what a remarkable woman, what a charming Afro-American lady! How well she can play the piano and speak Russian!'
'Complex-prone women are especially dangerous. They are like malicious mothers-in-law, women that evoke hatred and irritation with everyone. Everybody tries to part with such women as soon as possible. A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.'"

...great character. Ok, now we need a fictional setting, like a rented villa along the Straights of Ithithy. And the general plot could be our dear little Condi shirking her duties as Ober Grupen Girl-Geek to live in misty thrall to a flatulent fascist Russian union-buster that only a 'good old American Girl' could love. Typical Hollywood hijinks ensue as her legs are gradually covered in thick Rusky fur and she learns to cook enough meat for the boys in Legion 13.

Alito Makes Women Cry

Alito is scaring the bejeezus out of a nation of women whose freedoms are about to be reined in: "On the Republican side, Cathy Fleming, who worked under Alito when he was U.S. attorney for New Jersey and has known him for two decades, was to testify in support of his nomination, according to a GOP witness list.
Problem: Fleming also is president-elect of the National Association of Women Lawyers, which declared Jan. 8 that it had evaluated Alito's record and found him 'not qualified to serve on the court from a women's rights perspective.'"

Lindsay Graham reads from the words of Justice Ginzberg about how a woman needs control of her own body - and he disagrees ??? Is this how you think? If so, fuck you - and what are your coordinates?

Wikipedia - monkees build 747 from junkyard parts - in only 700,085 years !

It says that my gardener is God. It must be true.: "Ward Cunningham, the man who invented the wiki 10 years ago, says he designed it in reaction to precisely this kind of assumption: the idea, barely thought out, that ordinary people can't be trusted. 'No one has the right answers,' he says. 'Honest to God, what is truth? Can you tell me what truth is? If you want infallibility, go see the pope.' "

Diabetes and Its Awful Toll

Selling death to our kids - way to go American Business !: "'I will go out on a limb,' said Dr. Frieden, the health commissioner, 'and say, 20 years from now people will look back and say: 'What were they thinking? They're in the middle of an epidemic and kids are watching 20,000 hours of commercials for junk food.' '"

There will be a reckoning.

Homeland Security opening private mail

Homeland Security opening private mail - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com: "'All mail originating outside the United States Customs territory that is to be delivered inside the U.S. Customs territory is subject to Customs examination,' says the CBP Web site. That includes personal correspondence. 'All mail means 'all mail,' said John Mohan, a CBP spokesman, emphasizing the point.
'This process isn't something we're trying to hide,' Mohan said, noting the wording on the agency's Web site. 'We've had this authority since before the Department of Homeland Security was created,' Mohan said."

Any congressional democrat that agrees with this shit should be slapped silly and kicked out of the party.

The Torture Dilemma

The torturer's dilemma: the math on fire with fire: "In support of Lefebvre's revolutionary new theory, a survey of Soviet Emigrees and Americans was conducted in the 1970s. They were asked questions like, 'Should a doctor conceal from a patient that he has cancer in order to diminish his suffering?' Overwhelmingly, the Americans would say no, and overwhelmingly, the Soviets yes. The Soviets accepted the compromise of good with evil; the Americans rejected it.
What does this mean? If Americans begin to accept the use of torture, American society might turn into a society of individuals in conflict."

Anti-abortion's Elites

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How To Make Voter Foie Gras

I Have Nothing Against The Empire: "'See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.'
George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005"

Sometimes called 'jamming it down their throats.'

A Fallen Soldier's Father Speaks Truth

A Life, Wasted: "The words 'hero' and 'patriot' focus on the death, not the life. They are a flag-draped mask covering the truth that few want to acknowledge openly: Death in battle is tragic no matter what the reasons for the war. The tragedy is the life that was lost, not the manner of death. Families of dead soldiers on both sides of the battle line know this. Those without family in the war don't appreciate the difference."

...and...

Though it hurts, I believe that his death -- and that of the other Americans who have died in Iraq -- was a waste. They were wasted in a belief that democracy would grow simply by removing a dictator -- a careless misunderstanding of what democracy requires. They were wasted by not sending enough troops to do the job needed in the resulting occupation -- a careless disregard for professional military counsel.
But their deaths will not be in vain if Americans stop hiding behind flag-draped hero masks and stop whispering their opposition to this war. Until then, the lives of other sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers and mothers may be wasted as well.
This is very painful to acknowledge, and I have to live with it. So does President Bush.

This essential reality is missing from most of the FOX insanity now embracing this country.