"Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." The above quote is from the Downing Street memo, dated 8 months prior to the Iraq invasion. In other words, all dubya's hoopla about using war as a last resort, and giving the weapons inspectors opportunities to find WMD's, and all the other rhetoric was just lip servic...

Great article by Drew O'Neill. Obviously, I'd like to think that something here would touch someone's soul here, and give you food for thought. I just know that maybe, maybe, maybe some of you will finally, finally, finally wake up and see what the neoconservatives are doing to this country. I always hold out hope.................... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I Used To Be a Neocon by Drew O'Neill Two years ago I was a neocon. I supported Bush’s war on Iraq and I called...

Seems that sarcasm goes a long way on jingouser these days. This guy writes better than me, so I'm reposting it here for you fun and enjoyment. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After a lifetime voting for and working for Democratic candidates and independents, I'm finally going to make the switch and become a Republican. The reasons are many, not the least of which is age. I turned 55 recently and, having lived more than half my life, I can't afford to worry anymore about th...

Tonight at 8:00 pm ET on PAX TV they are airing this award-winning 1989 Oliver Stone film. If you have not previously seen it, it's a great movie. If you do not get cable TV, then I recommend that you rent it. There have been many parallels drawn between Viet Nam and Iraq, that I think this is a very relevant movie today. Interesting that it's PAX that is airing it. Tom Cruise, in what I consider to be his masterpiece performance, plays Ron Kovic, a disabled Viet Nam veteran who become...

This is an article written by someone who has been there and done that. The Case for a National ID by Florin Milea I know, as a person from Eastern Europe, what an id used to look like there. A booklet, a bit smaller then a US passport, on official paper, impossible to fake. Each page had the state emblem watermarked in. And of course the serial number, just as unique as the social security number. While in the cradle, the birth certificate would be suffice. At death, that speci...

A Reputation in Tatters George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America’s reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore America’s reputation would be to impeach and convict President Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress and the American people in order to start a war of aggression against a country that posed no threat to the United States. America can redeem itself only by holding Bush accountable. As intent as...

It dredges up racism, the KKK, white supremist scumbags, Nazis, Jew haters, and just plain hate. Some people claim that the confederate flag is a symbol of a wonderful southern heritage. Bullshit. If anyone choses to display this controversial symbol, s/he should not be surprised if others question the sanity of this act. Or, the outright stupidity. Racism is, after all, institutionalized insanity. And flag-waving hatred is dumb, at best. Although people have the right to display w...

I did not write this article. I will not say who did yet, because I want people to read it with an open mind. The content, after all, is what is so important here. It's about health care in this country, or lack thereof. It's about how this nation can get royally screwed when Congress allows corporate interests to write legislation. Please read on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There was a brief flurry of outrage when Congress passed the 2003 Medicare bill. The news media repo...

The bolded emphases are mine. Did Bush really cook the books? What's missing here, of course, is why was Bush so hell-bent on invading Iraq if the legal requirements for such invasion were as thin as this memo stated? Why did Britain go along with this folly? So many questions, and no anwers.......................... I don't believe we will get any until Bush and Co. are no longer in power. Why do I say that? Because they don't want us to have the answers because they are less than fla...

I'm not going to mention the blog site, because I don't want most of you righties going there to pollute it. So, I'm just reiterating the sentiment here for all our edifications: F*ck You George Bush.......... ....for preaching the Culture of Life while you kill innocent children. ....for bringing George Orwell's 1984 to life. ....for taking vacations when the system was blinking red...ie...52 warnings. ....single handedly halting tolerance in our society. ....for revelin...

I just posted this to a rather stupid dipshit's blog, who had nothing to say, other than comment on how I was eating my eleven children, born out of wedlock. What a fucking moron. I am reposting this because that moron is blacklisted from my blog, and I wanted this to stand on its own, without his useless and stupid commentary. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Starving children in third world countries, including USA, and those who are in the final episode of life, due to illness...

We, as a nation, have embarked down the very slippery slope of fascism. It starts rather insidiously as flag-waving patriotism, and before we know it, crosses the line to fascism. The surveilance, manipulation of the press, our country being run by corporate interests, investigations of library cards and book check-outs, censorship of the media, The list goes on...... Unfortunately, this country has its collective head up its collective ass, which is indicative of how good a job the Republica...

Do you guys actually support this criminal, Tom DeLay? Do you really support a leadership that will go to whatever lengths to win? Do you actually align yourself with this scumbag? Do you really believe the means justifies the ends? 1) Delay’s Political Action Committee is under criminal investigation for using corporate monies to finance political campaigns. 2) Delay tried to bribe another congressman to vote for the Medicare Bill. He earned a public admonishment from th...

The Republican leadership has given me yet another reason to HATE those SOB's. What a f*cking waste. The amount of oil gained from drilling this pristene wilderness will not make any difference in the big scheme of things. Oil may start flowing in ten years, maybe, and maybe enough for about 6 months reserves. But, the cost is so high. And we Americans are paying through the nose. And the oil industry will be laughing all the way to the bank. Freakin' pigs. Following is an excerpt f...