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The Party of "morals & family values" ignores a child sex predator who is one of their own

It's now clear that 3 senior Republican "leaders" knew of Congressman Foley's thing for young boys and did nothing about it. Foley was always quick to get in a hit on a President who had a thing for blowjobs from adult women. Senior Republican "leaders" chose to turn a blind eye so as not to damage the Republican Party in hopes that the issue would just go away.  OK, one Congressman resigns in shame. He's another self-righteous self-important, I can do what I want, it's the other people . . .. Those problems are not necessarily owned by the Republican Party. What is their's is the fact that senior "leadership" ignores solicitation of sex with a minor on the internet by a Republican member of Congress.

Denny Hastert - Speaker of the House "Keeping Kids Safe in Cyberspace"
John Boehner - House Majority Leader
Tom Reynolds - chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee -  google NRCC Swiftboating

John Shimkus (R. Ill). - chair of the House page board

Rodney Alexander (R-LA) the kids congressman

This is just sick-AMERICblog & ABC details

Oil - the new Lebensraum

Unprovoked aggression towards and occupation of Iraq are little different now than the Nazi justification for Lebensraum invasions.  Comments from the article and post below made me think quite a bit of what I've read about the rise of the Nazi party in Germany during the 1930's.  The same erosion of freedoms is taking place in the United States that took place there.

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Why the Torture Bill Matters

By Molly Ivins, AlterNet. Posted September 28, 2006.

. . . I'd like those supporting this evil bill to spare me one affliction: Do not, please, pretend to be shocked by the consequences of this legislation. And do not pretend to be shocked when the world begins comparing us to the Nazis.  (link Molly Ivins)

One of the comments

Nazis

 

Posted by: Jeanne     on Sep 28, 2006 10:57 PM   

I have been saying for years -- since about the time of W's invasion of Iraq -- that this country resembles Nazi Germany. Americans are as asleep as the German citizenry in the 30s and 40s who compliantly and dociley allowed the Nazis and Gestapo and SS to rule and act in their name. With the passage of W's detainee law, congress (yes, with a little c) has given the "chancellorship" over to W. He, with sole discretion to determine who is a terrorist and who is not, and who may be tortured and for which "crimes", will soon expand the definition and applicability to US citizens, and whomever else might commit "thought crimes" against his rule. I don't for a moment believe there is a chance of reversing the direction this country has taken. Most citizens are unconcerned and unable to comprehend what we've just lost. By the time they wake up there will be no recourse for anyone. And I don't believe that this was a grand plot orchestrated by some brilliant Machiavellian mind amongst the neocon/fanatical Christian right; they simply stumbled upon an opportunity, an unfortunate convergance of circumstances that has allowed the mad men who rule us to steal the car with the keys left in it and take all of us on a disastrous joy ride.

A perfect one sentence description

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Bush and his friends cannot be punished for crimes they have committed, while others can be thrown in jail without even knowing what crimes they are accused of. . . . (link The Huffington Post)

Buy GM or Support Terrorism

I guess they wanted some insurance to make sure they went out of business. Now the wingnuts don't even need bumper stickers to identify themselves. Anyone driving a GM product is a wingnut? I wonder if existing GM owners are happy with being identified that way? I guess they'll have to rush out and get a bumper sticker that states something about BushCo and Faux - or just be assumed by many to be Faux News and BushCo supporting; before they could just drive a car. Will GM have a new slogan "Buy GM or Support Terrorism"

GM Hires Fox News Mouthpiece Sean Hannity As Spokesman

General Motors has hired right-wing talk show host Sean Hannity to be the lead spokesman for a car giveaway campaign called “You’re a Great American“:

To stimulate consumer interest in its line of American-built cars, General Motors has turned to radio and Sean Hannity. … Hannity will serve as the spokesperson for GM’s You’re A Great American Car Give-Away, offering radio listeners the chance to pick and win one of five GM vehicles.

(link ThinkProgress)

      

America is disolving and washing away

BushCo is determined to turn the United States into a Stalinist theocracy. I know those words dont' quit go together, maybe more of a Taliban-like police state.

We can't trust them to do not do the things that are illegal and they are going to be trusted to not do the things that are?

The new pro-torture laws about to pass will strip US citizens of rights as anyone can be deemed a threat to the United States and as such defined as an enemy combatant and denied the right to file for habeus corpus.

I'm glad the book I ordered the other day arrived, I need to find a place to live where I don't have to be ashamed or afraid everytime I leave the country.

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And there are some very serious problems.

1. The legislation attempts “to prevent U.S. courts from ruling on the treatment of prisoners in the future, including any procedures the Bush administration might adopt for interrogations… Normally the courts would provide a check on administration policies, but the bill would prevent this by banning prisoners from bringing lawsuits over their detention and treatment.”

2. The legislation allows “foreign civilians in the United States or even U.S. citizens” to be deemed enemy combatants and thusly “arrested and held without charge indefinitely on grounds that they supported hostilities against the United States.… Endorsement of this standard by Congress would give extraordinary power to the Defense Department to arrest and hold foreigners and Americans without charge.”

With the president’s “with us or against us” rhetoric, and the repeated insistence by members of the Bush administration and their media shills to refer to dissenters as “traitors” and “terrorist sympathizers,” the possibility that a line will be drawn from principled opposition to “supporting hostilities against the US” is chilling. What does it mean for someone with a blog who regularly criticizes the administration’s strategy against terror? What does it mean for peace activists? What does it mean for protestors? What does it mean for elected members of the opposition party who dare to speak out against the war? This is scary stuff—and the Democrats are sealing their own fates and ours if they don’t do everything in their power to prevent this bill from becoming law.
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And over the next two years, if and when this legislation is used in nefarious ways we have yet begun to imagine (Susie Madrak points out “this would probably mean suspending habeas corpus for accused American drug dealers, since they have previously been designated as ‘supporting the war on terror’ by BushCo”), . . .(link Sharkespeare's Sister)

Lying, misleading, delusional, egotistical, self-righteous scum - Boehner R-Ohio

He spouts lies and misleads that even Shrub has backed away from and he is the House Majority Leader.  He has been elected to 8 terms. As this seems to represent Ohio, it seems like the perfect advertisement to avoid the state of Ohio at all costs. Not that there aren't plenty of other reasons.

 

John Boehner Still Believes Saddam Was Tied To 9/11 And Had WMD

By: Jamie Holly on Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 at 5:00 PM - PDT 

On Hardball this afternoon, House Majority Leader John Boehner was asked questions about Iraq. Boehner insisted that Saddam had WMD and that we just "haven’t found them yet". Boehner also states that Saddam was supporting the terrorists for 9/11 and was "providing cover" for the training camps in Iraq.

Video - WMV  Video - QT

Matthews was in shockingly good form during this interview. He would not back down from Boehner and in turn Boehner came off like a bumbling idiot. Boehner says that we will listen to the generals on the ground in Iraq, and Matthews responded by asking him why the generals come out and talk about how bad things are in Iraq once they retire. Boehner refused to answer that question. (link Crooks and Liars)

"...just a comma..."

From Watertiger's flickr site. She hasn't posted this pic on her blog yet  so I stole a copy and posted it, it's a great commentary. This picture makes a stronger statement than I've seen in a long time. I'm sure it expresses some of what Cindy Sheehan and other parents, spouses and loved ones feel.

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He says it all with a picture and a post title

                  At least this used to be true before the Republicans took over 
                  by John in DC - 9/27/2006 11:28:00 AM                   
 
 

(link AMERICAblog)

Cheney translated

Washington Post.com headline:

Cheney Says Hopes of World Rest on U.S.

In other words, EVERYBODY's fucked.

                   Posted by billmon at 01:30 PM 19-Sept (link via Watertiger at Firedoglake)

 

Der Panzerkardinal

I haven't read that much about what the Pope had said recently about Muslims.Everything he says is delusional so why should I care more about this than other hateful rantings.  He pissed off Muslims. So?

Anyway I was reading around the web and came across a post on that was to me at least interesting and new. Prior to becoming he Pope he was in charge of the committee to elect the new Pope (ala Cheney & Meyers - who's the best person for the job? why me of course) and previous to becoming the Pope he was in charge of the  office of Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith for 20 years, which until 1902 was known as the Inquisition - no really.

The current Pope has somewhat of a history of not really thinking of Muslims as people. At least not people he wants to be around or thinks that christians or catholics should be around. Turkey has been trying to become part of the EU and in 2004 Der Panzerkardinal has this to say;

Cardinal: No place for Turkey in EU

Wednesday 11 August 2004, 22:47 Makka Time, 19:47 GMT 

Turkey has been told to seek its future in a Muslim assocation

The Catholic Church's most senior theologian says Turkey should not attempt to join the European Union because it is a majority Muslim country with Muslim roots.

Turkey should seek its future in an association of Muslim nations rather than try to join a European community with Christian roots, the Vatican's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in an interview distributed on Wednesday.

The doctrinal head of the Roman Catholic Church said Turkey had always been "in permanent contrast to Europe" and linking it to Europe would be a mistake. . . .(link via The View from Number 80)