Lebowski…

“You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus!” I’d say he got what he was looking for…

Yep…(Sigh)

Great job guys. Big thumbs up for this one…

Bill Mahr, You’re a Great American

Sorry Sean Hannity, I had to co-opt your line because Bill Mahr is more of a Great American than you or your mindless listeners and viewers will ever be. Sit back, relax and enjoy this clip from Mahr’s show on Friday, October 27th.

New Rules - America Must Stop Bragging That It Is No. 1

Winner: Robert Fitzgerald!

I just want to give a shout out to Robert Fitzgerald the independence party candidate for the Minnesota senate race. Last night the League of women voters held a debate betwixt him, Amy Klobuchar and Mark Kennedy and I have to say that Robert did a spectacular job. His strongest issues are the occupation of Iraq and Economics (corporate welfare, tax system bullshit) which are the best issues to be strong in. Additionally, I couldn’t agree more with his stance on immigration, both Klobuchar and Kennedy are for the fence between us and Mexico, which is a colossal waste of money. About this Robert said: “Show me a 50 ft fence and I’ll show you a person with a 51 ft ladder”.

It was his rhetoric style that I really liked. He did use some lame political clichés (the fence line is one of them—although I agreed with it) at least he didn’t repeat them over and over again like Kennedy, and he sounded far less forced when he used them than Klobuchar. He also used them more sparingly than the other two candidates (continue this practice).

Ultimately he sounded very knowledgeable and very professional, sure he seemed a bit nervous at some points—and he caught himself saying “terribly effective” when he wanted to say “extremely effective” towards the end. In my opinion terribly would have worked fine. He only made those little screw ups when he got nervous which is understandable. The other candidates didn’t seem as nervous but they made screw-ups like that way more often and also repeated themselves quite a bit more. So the nervousness just made Robert look human and justified his speech foibles (which were very few) whereas when the other candidate screwed up they just looked dumb—especially Mark Kennedy who is a whiny bastard that seemed to ignore everything going on and just repeat the same attacks that were complete lies (obvious to the viewers as well). He even linked Iraq and al qaeda a couple of times…. HEY MARK!! EVEN BUSH DOESN’T DO THAT ANYMORE! YOU’RE A WHINY IDIOT!

One of the highlights of the debate had to be when Kennedy challenged Amy to a debate just about Iraq and Robert came back and said that he would love to and then didn’t drop it and Mark had to just ignore him. It was great, and I hope that debate happens because Robert obviously knows more facts about the situation and is able to articulate them better than either of the other candidates. In addition the war in Iraq is a big loser for republicans and Mark Kennedy is terrible at debating the issue. Amy really needs to accept this challenge because Kennedy will be left bloody.

If you’re reading this Robert please clarify your stance on Campaign finance reform. I understand that your afraid of stepping on free speech but there has to be some way to get the big corporate money (or bribery as I like to call it) out of politics, or at least diminish it… throw me some kind of bone here. I think that the money in politics is perhaps the single most damaging thing we have happening now, what will you do to fix it if finance reform isn’t the way? Also start talking about the instant runoff voting initiative. This needs to pass and no one is talking about it, you have the platform and your party stands to benefit most.

Now that I’m talking to you Robert I want to say one last thing: keep it up! Your style is becoming more natural and you seem far more in control than you have in debates in the past. Relax and continue to do what you did last night. You’ll go far.

Mother Jones Takes On Google

Mother Jones magazine asks the question: “Is Google Evil?” in its latest issue. The article brings up a number of good points, including that Google keeps a record of every search and every gmail message. Something else I was not aware of is that European privacy laws are much stricter than those of the US (surprise, surprise), therefore European-based search engines don’t keep all that info. With that in mind, I’ve been checking out KartOO as a search engine.

I Am A Bit Concerned At The Timing

Right now, according to this article, five countries are sending military ships to the Persian Gulf for some exercises. According to the article it is to flex a little muscle and demonstrate to Iran that it will not be able to ship nuclear material from its ports.

I’ll put on my conspiracy theory hat right now. The Vietnam war started in a gulf, too. The Gulf of Tonkin. In the middle of the night, according to reports at the time, the USS Maddox was attacked by a North Vietnamese torpedo boat during questionable circumstances. Two days later, another report of an “unprovoked” attack on another ship was reported. That was all it took to spark the war. Documents unearthed decades later prove the second story was a fabrication.

Let’s just play the conspiracy out. (more…)

Remember the Ammo Dump Explosions with no Casulties?

Well check this out: 300+ U.S.casulties:Forward Base Falcon “Coverup”!

So the explosion that Czech Air said looked like a tactical nuke that supposedy didn’t have casualties appears to actually have some. Here’s a link to some other stories via google news. Even if this 300 number isn’t completly accurate there is a lot of evidence for massive US casualties. I expect this will hit the news sometime after the election. Anyone know how to effectively get a story on the news? I would love to make some phone calls, I’m going to start with congressmen and then move to the media. This needs to come out before the election.

Death of a President

Here is some “footage” of Dubya being assasinated.  I always think it is cool when limos peel out…

Little Question For Dick

So, Mr. Cheney, when you said “no-brainer” were you talking about Bush or torture?

Republican Punk’d

The prosperity of the 1990s created a perfect climate for Americans and other industrialized nations around the world. People were so prosperous they flocked to see movies like Titanic and American Beauty where they could fantasize about being even more rich or more self-gratified than they really were.

The side-effect of eight years of peace and prosperity under Democratic rule led people around the world to feeling of guilt. Can things REALLY be this good? Can we REALLY have it all?
The digital revolution of the Dot-Com era had the GDP of nations around the world booming. The trickle-down economic theory espoused by Republicans in the 1980s started to actually seem like a reality. People were buying and selling houses like hotcakes. This spurred even more houses to be built at ever higher prices, thus driving the economy up even faster!

But there had to be a problem somewhere. It wasn’t really possible for a government controlled by Democrats to actually be good for business AND good for the people, was it?

Fortunately, for the Republican party, they found a problem. In the middle of a backwoods real estate deal over a podunk piece of land in Arkansas referred to as Whitewater. This trail of apparently shadowy dealings eventually led to a semen-stained dress. Exactly what the Republicans needed to crash the Democrat party and begin to unravel the economic good times that were delivered by Papa Clinton and his merry band of policy wonks.

It isn’t rocket science really. They want you to think it is. But Clinton and Co. did a few simple thing throughout the 1990s: Encourage business and consumer spending, curb government spending. Does this sound fanciful? There are certainly neocons out there who will claim this is revisionist history. If they tell you this, they are lying. The facts are on-line on the government’s own website. The percent changes of GDP from 1959 through 2006 are available for free to anyone with an internet connection. Download Spreadsheet B4 and check out Column B and Column N. Column B shows us that as our GDP increased slightly, our government spent less money – as displayed by Column N.

Why does this not make sense to the neocons? Bush and his Goon Squad of neocon thugs profess to be looking out for our country’s best interests, yet the only lessons they have learned from history involve attacking nations without the means to defend themselves from the military might of the United States.

“Remember 9/11!”

“Remember the Maine!”

How about, “Remember Papa Bill!”

If America can remember the days of prosperity and wealth enjoyed by everyone in the last days of the 20th century and wonder where the hell it all went…then there is a chance on Novermber 7th, 2006 that the people of the United States will pull the plug on the neocons. It’s time to vote the Republican neocons out of office and save the sinking ship that will be forever stained with the “Bush Legacy”.