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Is America In Decline?
2007-11-19 01:24:00
This story is from Tom Harper at Who Hijacked Our Country. I hope you don't mind tom. It is a little different from Toms post, but still the same story.I was watching C-span this morninfg and the viewers were asked to comment on Chris Hedges story in the Philadelphia Inquier, title "Amid Trapping of power, signs of the decline Abound."It was the same topic done by tom harper and I thought I would upload some of the viewer comments and let you give your opinion."All great empires and nations decay from within. By the time they hobble off the world stage, overrun by the hordes at the gates or vanishing quietly into the pages of history books, what made them successful and powerful no longer has relevance. This rot takes place over decades, as with the Soviet Union, or, even longer, as with the Roman, Ottoman or Austro-Hungarian empires. It is often imperceptible."As tom points out; "Take it easy now, we?re still Number One when it comes to manufacturing weapons, occupying other co...
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On A Break
2007-11-15 01:45:00
I am on a break for a few days, I will be back shortly. Here's a video from Robert Rouse. Enjoy and be safe!
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Sen. Shulmer And Sen. Feinstein Help Confirm Mukasey
2007-11-08 04:37:00
Mukasey will get at least 70 votes when the entire Senate votes on whether to confirm him to succeed former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.Nominated in September, Mukasey was initially considered a sure bet for confirmation until he repeatedly refused to say in Senate hearings whether he defines waterboarding as torture.Our President cried and said if Mukasey was not confirmed, their would not be a Attorney General. It's as if this country has some type of spoiled kid running this country and like a spoil kid, if he does not get his way, no one will. Yes this President would rather appoint someone for the next 14 months as acting Attorney General.The Democrats are no better than this President. Sen. Shul mer and others had been suggesting that Mukasey would make a fine Attorney General, and when this retired Judge seemed to be dishonest with the question on waterboarding, Sen. Shulmer and Feinstein overlooked his dishonesty and voted for his confirmation.I ask you America, did...
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Glenn Beck And The American Way
2007-11-01 11:47:00
We're being attacked someplace else in the cover of night and if we lose this battle, we lose it all. Here's "The Point" tonight. G.I. Joe is the latest casualty in the war against the American way and I know, I know, it's just a toy, a little hunk of plastic, a cartoon. I know. And that makes it easy to dismiss this. But I believe that would be a huge mistake.Where in the world is Beck going with this and why does CNN allow him airtime?
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Fact Checked Guiliani
2007-10-31 15:11:00
See Original StoryIn a new radio ad, Rudy Giuliani falsely claims that under England?s ?socialized medicine? system only 44 percent of men with prostate cancer survive.According to Fact check.org Giuliani campaign adviser, who admits that his figure isn?t "technically" a survival rate at all. Furthermore, the author of the study on which Giuliani?s man based his calculations said the work is being misused, and that the 44 percent figure is both wrong and ?misleading.?It?s true that official survival rates for prostate cancer are higher in the U.S. than in England, but the difference is not nearly as high as Giuliani claims. And even so, the higher survival rates in the U.S. may simply reflect more aggressive diagnosing of non-lethal cancers, according to the American Cancer Society.Actually, men with prostate cancer are more likely to die sooner if they don?t have health insurance, according to a recent study published in one of the American Medical Association?s journals. Giuliani ...
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Megan Williams
2007-10-28 06:52:00
See Original StoryMegan Williams thought she was going to a partyThat is why she tagged along with a woman she says she hardly knew, up a remote West Virginia hollow to a run-down trailer surrounded by beer cans and broken-down furniture."But there wasn't no party," Williams told the Associated Press in one of her first public interviews since the arrest of six people now accused of becoming her captors. "I realized I'd made a bad mistake."For days, the 20-year-old black woman was allegedly tortured, beaten, forced to eat feces - rat, dog and human - and raped by six white men and women who held her until Sept. 8.A passer-by heard cries from the shed where she had been kept, and Logan County sheriff's deputies found her hours later.Seated in a rocking chair in her mother's living room, about 50 miles from that shed, the slight woman says she was outnumbered by people who just wanted to hurt a black person. See Magan Williams"They just kept saying 'This is what we do to niggers...
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War $46 Billion, Our Children And Wounded $0
2007-10-23 13:32:00
President Bush has denied our children health care and our wounded Veterans help, simply because he does not want to put that burden on the tax payers. Next, he has started his scare tactics with a new video of Osama bin Laden. Now he is asking our Congress for $46 billion dollars more for his war. What is wrong with this picture?
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Religious Right And Third Party Candidate
2007-10-21 02:55:00
Keith Olbermann takes a look at the Republican candidates and the Religious Right view on them and a possible third party candidate by the Evangelicals.
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Larry Craig fights To Clear His Name
2007-10-17 20:32:00
Photo from Left Of CentristJohn Avravosis talked about Mark Johnson interview with Senator Larry Craig and his wife Suzanne. Senator Craig said that he was not gay and made a mistake by not informing his wife of the incident.Craig is fighting to get his guilty plea for disorderly conduct overturned and keeping his Senate seat. He stated that he did not want to embarrass his wife, his kids, Idaho, and his friends as the reason he did not seek counsel for said incident. Will this man keep his Senate seat or will he be ran out by his fellow Republicans, What say you?
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One Year Anniversary!
2007-10-16 15:58:00
Click photo to enlargeOne year has passed since I moved into the house I had built last year. I've been busy over the weekend giving the front and backyard a new face lift for the coming winter. So forgive me for not posting or visiting other sites as much this pass week.
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Edwards Denies Affair
2007-10-12 21:34:00
Click Photo To View Video ClipSee Original StoryDemocratic presidential candidate John Edwards says a tabloid story that he had an extramarital affair is untrue."The story is false. It's completely untrue, ridiculous," Edwards told reporters Thursday after he was asked about the National Enquirer report.The supermarket newspaper reported that the former North Carolina senator had an affair with a woman who worked on his campaign. It did not identify the woman, nor did it name the source of the information for its report.Edwards said the story was simply "made up" and that he loves his wife, Elizabeth, who is being treated for an incurable form of cancer.
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Is John Edwards Having A Affair?
2007-10-12 07:41:00
According to The National Enquirer, Celebrity News, Presidential candidate John Edwards is caught in a shocking mistress scandal that could wreck his campaign. To make matters worse, Ann Coulter got hold of the story and announced it in the Tucker News Show.The NATIONAL ENQUIRER, says that she confessed to having an affair in phone calls and emails, saying that her work with Edwards soon exploded into romance. Yes, the "other woman" previously worked on Edwards' campaign and followed the 54-year-old candidate on trips across the U.S. said sources.John Edwards spokesman said that allegations Edwards had an affair are "false, absolute nonsense." If this turns out to be true, what will this do to Edwards campaigne?
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Bush And His Torture Policy
2007-10-09 01:22:00
President George Bush on Friday categorically defended his authorization of interrogation methods defined by international and US law and viewed the world over as torture.At his press appearance, Bush made his standard pro-forma disavowal: ?This government does not torture people.? He added, ?We stick to US law and our international obligations.?Significantly, Bush chose to use the phrase ?international obligations? rather than ?international law.? This is not a small matter, since the interrogation methods Bush has authorized and continues to defend are flagrant violations of the Geneva Conventions and international conventions against torture and cruel and degrading treatment. Has America gone into the torture business?What say you?
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Ann Coulter Again!
2007-10-03 20:28:00
Ann Coulter is at it again with her new book and old ways to sell said book.
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Maj. Gen. Batiste On Limbaugh Remarks
2007-10-02 01:57:00
Maj.Gen. Batiste (Ret.), spoke with Keith Olbermann on Countdown about Rush Limb augh and his remrks on "phony soldier". He also covered the General Patraeus situation with the surge and President Bush.

Where's True Leadership?
2007-09-30 11:14:00
Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance T. Gray died in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad, two of seven U.S. troops killed in the incident which was reported just as Gen. David Petraeus was about to report to Congress on progress in the 'surge.'Staff Sergeant Jeremy Murphy, an Army Ranger and reconnaissance team leader, was shot in the head while the article was being written. He was expected to survive after being flown to a military hospital in the United States."Below is the article they wrote in the New York Times:The War as We Saw ItBy BUDDHIKA JAYAMAHA, WESLEY D. SMITH, JEREMY ROEBUCK, OMAR MORA, EDWARD SANDMEIER, YANCE T. GRAY AND JEREMY A. MURPHYPublished: August 19, 2007BaghdadVIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that ...
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President Concerned About Spending, But Plans To Ask For $200 Billion For
2007-09-27 04:16:00
The House voted Tuesday to expand health insurance for children, but the Democratic-led victory may prove short-lived because the margin was too small to override President Bush's promised veto.the House voted 265-159 to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, by $35 billion over five years. Bush says he will veto the bill due to its cost, its reliance on a tobacco tax increase and its potential for replacing private insurance with government grants.SCHIP is a state-federal program that provides coverage for 6.6 million children from families that live above the poverty level but have trouble affording private health insurance. The proposed expansion, backed by most governors and many health-advocacy groups, would add 4 million children to the rolls.The bill drew support from 45 House Republicans, many of them moderates who do not want to be depicted as indifferent to low-income children's health needs when they seek re-election next year. But 151 Republic...
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The Interceptor VS The Dragon Skin Body Armor
2007-09-24 09:29:00
PART 1PART 2The Army insists the body armor troops are now wearing ? called Interceptor ? is the very best in the world. And, without question, those vests have saved lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.But an NBC investigation suggests there may be something even better out there called Dragon Skin , a flexible body armor of interconnected ceramic discs.In limited testing at a renowned ballistics lab in Germany, Dragon Skin was able to defeat more bullets than the Army?s Interceptor and did so with significantly less body trauma.Dragon Skin repelled volley after volley of the most lethal types of ammunition, including armor-piercing rounds, armor-piercing incendiary rounds as well as a ?composite? round so deadly that the U.S. Army has asked NBC News not to describe it with specificity.In the test Dragon Skin stopped all the rounds ? it did so with much less trauma to the body than with Interceptor. Stopping the bullet is only half the job of body armor; a soldier can still die from the...
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Hannity and Colmes Fair and Balance On MoveOn.Org
2007-09-21 18:31:00
Here is what the Republicans watch every night, It's called fair and balance. Hannity and Colmes talked with former Congressman Harold Ford and Sen. Rick Santorum about the MoveOn.org Ad. What you have here, is what Fox call fair and balance.What say you?
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New Site
2007-09-21 03:31:00
Above is a copy of my new site called, Let's Talk God and yes it is a Religious site. What I really need is the help for the site, Let's Talk. I've changed templates because I was planning to use the old template on my new site at some point.The help I need is, anyone with a browser other than IE7. Can you please inform me of any parts of this template that's not correct, such as sidebar not being on the left side or being at the bottom of the template.Thanks in advance!
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Greenspan; Iraq Occupation Was About Oil
2007-09-19 08:50:00
David Shuster recently talked about the comments made by Greenspan about America and why we are really in Iraq . It's kind of scary to think that the main reason America invaded Iraq was because of Oil, not WMP, but Oil.Critics of the administration have often argued that while Bush cited Hussein's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and despotic rule as reasons for the invasion, he was also motivated by a desire to gain access to Iraq's vast oil reserves. Publicly, little evidence has emerged to support that view, although a top-secret National Security Presidential Directive, titled "Iraq: Goals, Objectives and Strategy" and signed by Bush in August 2002 -- seven months before the invasion -- listed as one of many objectives "to minimize disruption in international oil markets."Greenspan made the striking comment in a new memoir out over the weekend that "the Iraq War is largely about oil." In the interview, he clarified that sentence in his 531-page book, saying that while ...
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Rudolph Giuliani, "Who Should America Listen To"
2007-09-18 03:38:00
This country has lost all credibility with the rest of the world. Could Rudy Giuliani really bring us back to where we once was or does he have other reasons to become President?Rudolph Giuliani 's membership on an elite Iraq study panel came to an abrupt end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group, causing the panel's top Republican to give him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit, several sources said.Giuliani left the Iraq Study Group last May after just two months, walking away from a chance to make up for his lack of foreign policy credentials on the top issue in the 2008 race, the Iraq war.He cited "previous time commitments" in a letter explaining his decision to quit, and a look at his schedule suggests why -- the sessions at times conflicted with Giuliani's lucrative speaking tour that garnered him $11.4 million in 14 months.I guess if you compare Giuliani to President Bush's standards, then maybe this he's OK, fo...
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America, The Land Of The Free
2007-09-07 19:13:00
O'er the land of the free. Thats what we sing when we are at a ball game or during an important event; the Star Spangled Banner.Adam Kokesh (IVAW), Tina Richards (Grassroots America ), and Ian Thompson who's with the ANSWER coalition's LA division. They were arrested in Washington, D.C. for defying a federal government ban on posting promotional material for the September 15th Antiwar Rally, to be held in that city. The arrests took place at the corner of H. St. and Jackson Place NW, near Lafayette Park, just north of the White House.Mr. Kokesh is the co-chair elect of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Marine Mom Richards is the CEO of Grassroots America. The activists placed promotional posters on a traffic box, which supposedly falls under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Interior and the National Parks Service.Recently, the District of Columbia government imposed draconian fines on the ANSWER coalition for placing political literature around town. As a result, the...
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Fox, Hannity And Colems Shows Fair And Balance News?
2007-09-06 15:06:00
Jon Soltz and Dan Senor were guest on Hannity and Colems the other night and things got somewhat out of hand.Joe Soltz, a Captain with the 1st Armored Division, served in both Kosovo and Iraq. Joe is one of the Bloggers of VoteVets.org whose mission it is to not only get young Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans like Patrick Murphy elected but also to hold our nation's leaders accountable for the decisions they make that impact our soldiers, their families and our veterans.Dan Senor, served as former Advisor to the U.S. Presidential Envoy in Iraq. He was also the Director of the Coalition Information Center and he served as a Legislative Aide, Press Secretary, and Communications Director for then-Senator Spencer Abraham.These two guys went at it on the surge and the Bush policies in Iraq, the Ari Fischer PR and the 15 million dollars he has spent to endorse and make the case for President Bush's surge.
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Who's In Charge, Who's The Decider?
2007-09-05 14:56:00
I know that I'm not the smartest guy in the world, so I guess I need some help. I would like to know just who is the Decider....George Bush cannot-or will not-remember being briefed on the dismantling of the Iraqi Army. I thought he made those types of decisions for this country?According to writer Robert Draper of "Dead Certain" Ambassador Paul Bremer made that decision for him.In an interview with Robert Draper, Mr. Bush sounded as if he had been taken aback by the decision, or at least by the need to abandon the original plan to keep the army together even though he wrote back to Ambassador Bremer, that he had his support to do so."The policy had been to keep the army intact; didn't happen," Mr. Bush told the interviewer. When Mr. Draper asked the president how he had reacted when he learned that the policy was being reversed, Mr. Bush replied, "Yeah, I cannot remember, I'm sure I said, "This is the policy, what happened?"Mr. Bremer, in Baghdad, had issued the order disbandin...
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Government Accountability Office And The Surge Report
2007-08-31 10:38:00
See Original StoryThe Associated Press has learned the Government Accountability Office , or GAO, will report that at least 13 of the 18 benchmarks to measure the surge of U.S. troops to Iraq are unfulfilled ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline. That's when Bush is to give a detailed accounting of the situation eight months after he announced the policy, according to three officials familiar with the matter.The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report has not been made public, also said the administration is preparing a case to play down the findings, arguing that Congress ordered the GAO to use unfair, "all or nothing" standards when compiling the document.A leaked draft version of the report was sent to the Post by an individual who was concerned the White House may try to ?water down? its conclusions. After Gen. David Petraeus ?softened? or altered the document?s judgment about the violence in Iraq. Democrats are expected this fall to push for another round of ...
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Where's The Money Going?
2007-08-25 22:13:00
Video Taken From Pissed On PoliticsCorporate profits have increased 21.3% in the past year and now account for the largest share of national income in 40 years, the Commerce Department said Thursday.Strong productivity gains and subdued wage growth boosted before-tax profits to 11.6% of national income in the fourth quarter of 2005, the biggest share since the summer of 1966. See full story. For all of 2005, before-tax profits totaled $1.35 trillion, up from $1.16 trillion in 2004 and just $767 billion in 2001. Meanwhile, the share of national income going to wage and salary workers has fallen to 56.9%. Except for a brief period in 1997, that's the lowest share for labor income since 1966.Not to be outdone. With 5.63 billion shares outstanding as of the first quarter, that's a profit of $10.97 billion. That tops Exxon's previous record of $10.7 billion set in the fourth quarter of 2005, when hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused a surge in natural gas prices. So the oil companies a...
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Police Say, They Are Locked - But Not Loaded, Thanks To War
2007-08-24 14:16:00
See Original StoryTroops training for and fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are firing more than 1 billion bullets a year, contributing to ammunition shortages hitting police departments nationwide and preventing some officers from training with the weapons they carry on patrol.Departments in all parts of the country reported delays or reductions in training and, in at least one case, a proposal to use paint-ball guns in firing drills as a way to conserve real ammo.The military is in no danger of running out because it gets the overwhelming majority of its ammunition from a dedicated plant outside Kansas City. But police are at the mercy of commercial manufacturers.If we had to fight them over here, would there be enough ammunition to fight with?What say you?
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You're Doin A Heck Of A Job Pauly!
2007-08-22 07:15:00
David Paulison testifying before a House committee regarding poisonous gas in FEMA trailers and promised to warn tens of thousands of displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina that they are living in agency trailers that may be contaminated with dangerously high levels of formaldehyde gas. Leslie March, chair of the Sierra Club's Gulf Coast Environmental Restoration Taskforce stated. "Hurricane victims do not deserve to be victimized by their own government." "We know one family that moved into a storage shed because their daughter threw up every time she spent time in the FEMA trailer," said Becky Gillette, co-chair of the Mississippi chapter of the Sierra Club. "Another man sleeping in his driveway told me, 'My FEMA trailer is killing me,'" she added.FEMA first had refused to test the trailers because of possible letigations of futher damage to Katrina victims. The committee released internal e-mails showing the Federal Emergency Management Agency has known about the problem fo...

NSA Judge's vs Bush
2007-08-19 08:39:00
(Recorded and Copied from C-SPAN and Uploaded to Google Video)9th Circuit Court of AppealsThe Honorable Harry Pregerson The Honorable Michael Daly Hawkins The Honorable Margaret McKeownU.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard oral arguments in two cases on the government's warrantless wiretapping program. The Court will decide whether or not to dismiss the two cases under the "state secrets" privilege, which bars the presentation of evidence in court that could threaten national security. Lower court judges in both cases rejected the government's attempts to get the cases dismissed. The plaintiffs in Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc. v. Bush are an Oregon branch of a Saudi charity that has been investigated for alleged terrorist ties. They argue that they have a top-secret document proving they were a direct target of National Security Agency surveillance. Hepting v. AT&T is a class action on behalf of a group of AT&T customers who allege that the company interc...