Our Commander in Chief...and other Scary things about the U.S.A....

[Libra]

Ann Coulter may finally be getting her just desserts.  The plagarising, hate-mongering, right-wing, bitch from hell is being investigated by the company that syndicates her columns.  She's also being investigated for several alledged accounts of plagarism in her new hate book, "Godless"

It's about time this woman gets the come around from the chit she's thrown around.  And this woman calls herself a christian.  

Anyway, here's the story:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002801078

[crazy_]

Ann Coulter may finally be getting her just desserts.  The plagarising, hate-mongering, right-wing, bitch from hell is being investigated by the company that syndicates her columns.  She's also being investigated for several alledged accounts of plagarism in her new hate book, "Godless"

It's about time this woman gets the come around from the chit she's thrown around.  And this woman calls herself a christian.  

Anyway, here's the story:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002801078

GOOD !   I hope it is substantiated...and they kick her fricken ass all the way to the south pole and leave her there!  ;:"

[Libra]

Ann Coulter may finally be getting her just desserts.  The plagarising, hate-mongering, right-wing, bitch from hell is being investigated by the company that syndicates her columns.  She's also being investigated for several alledged accounts of plagarism in her new hate book, "Godless"

It's about time this woman gets the come around from the chit she's thrown around.  And this woman calls herself a christian.  

Anyway, here's the story:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002801078

GOOD !   I hope it is substantiated...and they kick her fricken ass all the way to the south pole and leave her there!  ;:"

LMAO!  Next time, don't hold back, Crazy... Tell us how you really feel.

[Libra]

The neo-Nazi group National Alliance sent out a recuitment letter to every member of the Florida Bar, including two of the attorneys here at my firm, one is a Jew, the other is from India.  They're suing the bar for selling their names. 

Anyway, as if that's not bad enough, these hate groups are now infiltrating our armed services. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/washington/07recruit.html

[Libra]

Hey Foxx, a little off topic here, but it's a good article on the role of feminine energy in the world today......brought by an unlikely figure, a Benedictine nun.
Have you heard of her?
She's fabulous. And I'm not even close to being catholic (I'd be a full fledged Buddhist if it weren't for that whole "no drinking" thing)

Sister Joan Chittister speaks with more clarity than anyone I've heard in a long time about the isues that face the world today. Really quite a remarkable woman, (and, among other things, she is standing up to Rome - fiercely, proudly, gently, from love - no small feat to stand firm yet not lose the essential "thing" that connects us all).
"The point of feminism, she insists, is not simply to empower women but to make our culture and the church more whole."

I'd heard her speaking on NPR and was struck by her fearless love, so went looking for more of her - turns out she's written over 40 books.
Anyway, I was drawn to this impressive woman of true inner strength.
Here's a short bio, with links to some of her writing at the bottom:

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/obedienceandaction/kristasjournal.shtml

Clip:
"This conversation followed shortly on the heels of the Episcopal church's election of its first female presiding bishop. Joan Chittister is an outspoken and controversial voice on the role of women in the Roman Catholic world. She is fiery and fearless in proposing that a new and open discussion must be held in earnest. The point of feminism, she insists, is not simply to empower women but to make our culture and the church more whole. But she takes a quintessentially religious and distinctly Benedictine long view of time. She resists the current stance of Catholic orthodoxy, but at the same time she honors tradition as life-giving and communal and necessarily slow to change.

We are living in a crossover time, Sr. Joan declares. We are at a moment in history when every structure and institution is in flux and up for grabs â€" religious, political, marital. The old answers don't work as they once did, and the new answers have yet to be discerned. People are searching within and beyond spiritual traditions reading books, seeking new community, and perhaps even listening to public radio with a new ear as they pursue answers that make sense in the context of their lives."

[Libra]

The Supreme Court Rejected Bush's Dictatorship - And So Do I!

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that Congress never authorized the Bush Administration to ignore existing laws and treaties in pursuing those responsible for the 9-11 attacks. That means Bush's defiance of those laws and treaties is illegal, so he and his top officials could be charged with war crimes - and impeached.

Let's tell our Representatives once again to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney:

http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/65


Despite opposition from Beltway insiders, the grassroots impeachment movement continues to grow, with Fairfax (CA) becoming the latest town to join the impeachment bandwagon.

http://www.impeachpac.org/resolutions-list


Our past efforts to polling (thanks to your generous contributions) and to pressure companies include impeachment questions in their regular polls (thanks to your persistent pressure) have been successful:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling


But the polling companies believe they can poll once and then return to ignoring the issue. Let's tell them they're wrong:

http://www.democrats.com/bush-impeachment-polls

Get involved!  Make a difference!

[Libra]

BREAKING NEWS!!

Valerie Plame Wilson and Ambassador Joseph Wilson initiate a civil action against Vice President Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby for violations of their constitutional and other legal rights. Yay!  :D

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306Y.shtml

[foxx]

BREAKING NEWS!!

Valerie Plame Wilson and Ambassador Joseph Wilson initiate a civil action against Vice President Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby for violations of their constitutional and other legal rights. Yay!  :D

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306Y.shtml

How did I miss this?  Good for them.  Too bad someone will probably have them killed now...

[Homer]

Dubya got caught using a bad word today.

It was the sh*t heard round the world. :o

[foxx]

Dubya got caught using a bad word today.

It was the sh*t heard round the world. :o

LOL...I missed it!  You got a clip?

[damian666]

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/bush-curses-hezbollahs-actions-at-g-8/20060717081909990004

[foxx]

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/bush-curses-hezbollahs-actions-at-g-8/20060717081909990004

Thanks!

Heh.

[Libra]

Act now! Sign the petition to allow stem-cell research!

http://www.giveemhellharry.com/page/petition/stemcells

[Libra]

Randolph Bourne said in 1918....

"The Government, with no mandate from the people, without consultation of the people, conducts all the negotiations, the backing and filling, the menaces and explanations, which slowly bring it into collision with some other Government, and gently and irresistibly slides the country into war. . .

The moment war is declared, however, the mass of the people, through some spiritual alchemy, become convinced that they have willed and executed the deed themselves. They then, with the exception of a few malcontents, proceed to allow themselves to be regimented, coerced, deranged in all the environments of their lives, and turned into a solid manufactory of destruction toward whatever other people may have, in the appointed scheme of things, come within the range of the Government's disapprobation. The citizen throws off his contempt and indifference to Government, identifies himself with its purposes, revives all his military memories and symbols, and the State once more walks, an august presence, through the imaginations of men. Patriotism becomes the dominant feeling, and produces immediately that intense and hopeless confusion between the relations which the individual bears and should bear toward the society of which he is a part. . . "

And we haven't wised up yet...

[Libra]

Bush Backers May Abandon Republicans   :D
By DONNA CASSATA
AP


WASHINGTON (Aug. 11) - Republicans determined to win in November are up against a troublesome trend - growing opposition to President Bush.

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted this week found the president's approval rating has dropped to 33 percent, matching his low in May. His handling of nearly every issue, from the Iraq war to foreign policy, contributed to the president's decline around the nation, even in the Republican-friendly South.

More sobering for the GOP are the number of voters who backed Bush in 2004 who are ready to vote Democratic in the fall's congressional elections - 19 percent. These one-time Bush voters are more likely to be female, self-described moderates, low- to middle-income and from the Northeast and Midwest.

Two years after giving the Republican president another term, more than half of these voters - 57 percent - disapprove of the job Bush is doing.

"The signs now point to the most likely outcome of Democrats gaining control of the House," said Robert Erikson, a Columbia University political science professor.

Democrats need to gain 15 seats in the House to seize control after a dozen years of Republican rule, and the party is optimistic about its chances amid diminishing support for Bush and the GOP-led Congress.

Republicans argue that elections will be decided in the 435 districts and the 33 Senate races based on local issues with the power of incumbency looming large.

"This election will be less about a political climate that is challenging for both parties, and instead about the actual candidates and how their policies impact voters on the local level," said Tracey Schmitt, a Republican National Committee spokeswoman.

But fewer than 100 days before the Nov. 7 election, the AP-Ipsos poll suggested the midterms are clearly turning into a national referendum on Bush.

The number of voters who say their congressional vote this fall will be in part to express opposition to the president jumped from 20 percent last month to 29 percent, driven by double-digit increases among males, minorities, moderate and conservative Democrats and Northeasterners.

"I don't feel like the war was the answer," said Paula Lohler, 54, an independent from Worcester, Mass., who is inclined to vote her opposition to Bush. "It seems like it's going on and on and on and nothing's being done."

That attitude propelled anti-war challenger Ned Lamont to Tuesday's Democratic primary win over Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, a stalwart supporter of Bush on the war.

"I think it's going to be similar to what we saw in 1994 and the tremendous dissatisfaction with Democrats," said Dick Harpootlian, the former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. "Republicans are going to feel the wrath, feel the pain of being associated with President Bush."

In the South, Bush's approval ratings dropped from 43 percent last month to 34 percent as the GOP advantage with Southern women disappeared.

House Republican candidates looking to oust incumbent Democrats seized on the silver lining of the AP-Ipsos poll. Many of the 1,001 adults and 871 registered voters surveyed Aug. 7-9 said they've had enough with the status quo. Only 26 percent of adults said the country was on the right track, and just 29 percent approved of the job Congress is doing.

"It's a good year to be running against an incumbent," said Republican David McSweeney, an investment banker looking to unseat first-term Democratic Rep. Melissa Bean in the Chicago suburbs.

"Approval ratings for Congress are below where the president is," said Jeff Lamberti, a Republican taking on five-term Iowa Rep. Leonard Boswell. "It's a real opportunity for a challenger."

A Democrat seeking an open seat in a competitive Colorado district - Ed Perlmutter - is certain his party will capitalize on the national mood.

"There's a point where people just get mad," said Perlmutter, a winner in Tuesday's primary.

On the generic question of whether voters would back the Democrat or Republican, 55 percent of registered voters chose the Democrat and 37 percent chose the Republican, a slight increase for Democrats from last month.

"I'm not too happy with Bush at the moment," said dental lab employee Chrissie Clement, 36, of Poynette, Wis. "I think he could do more for this country. We need to get somebody new in there and get a different party in charge."

Charles Taylor, 56, who works on newspaper presses and lives near Roanoke, Va., said, "I would like to see Republicans keep control of Congress. I vote Republican to support the president."

Republican consultant Kevin Spillane said August polls typically have been filled with bad news for Bush and the GOP, but they eventually turn it around in November. Still, he said, "The bottom line from the numbers is no Republican incumbent should be caught unprepared for November."

The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points for adults and 3.5 percentage points for registered voters.

[Libra]

Candidate Scraps Gibson Fund-Raising Letter
Reuters


SAN FRANCISCO (Aug. 10) - A California Republican will no longer use a campaign fund-raising letter penned by Mel Gibson following the actor's anti-Semitic outburst during a traffic stop, the candidate's spokesman said on Wednesday.

State Sen. Tom McClintock, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, will stop mailing the letter in light of Gibson's comments after being pulled over for speeding last month, spokesman Stan Devereux said.

Gibson has since been charged with drunk driving amid speculation his rant about Jews causing wars could affect his popularity and Hollywood career. Gibson has apologized and entered an alcohol treatment program.

"Tom was disillusioned by the Gibson incident and his comments and basically directed the campaign not to utilize that letter," Devereux said.

California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres issued a statement saying McClintock should return the funds raised by the letter.

"If McClintock wants his rejection of Gibson's support to be more than an empty gesture, he needs to return the money raised by the letter. Anything less is unacceptable," he said.

Republican political consultant Karen Hanretty said McClintock's Democratic challenger and state Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi should not make an issue of the Gibson letter.

"It's not unusual for politicians to be endorsed by entertainers who have problems in their past," Hanretty said.

The entertainment industry has long played a role in California politics, providing campaign funds, activists, candidates and office-holders, including current Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Republican governor and U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Prominent Hollywood Democrats who have mulled bids for the governor's office to unseat Schwarzenegger include actor/directors Warren Beatty and Rob Reiner.

[Libra]

[foxx]

Bush Backers May Abandon Republicans   :D
By DONNA CASSATA
AP


WASHINGTON (Aug. 11) - Republicans determined to win in November are up against a troublesome trend - growing opposition to President Bush.

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted this week found the president's approval rating has dropped to 33 percent, matching his low in May. His handling of nearly every issue, from the Iraq war to foreign policy, contributed to the president's decline around the nation, even in the Republican-friendly South.

:D  People are turning their brains back on!  YAY! 

[Libra]

Bush Backers May Abandon Republicans   :D
By DONNA CASSATA
AP


WASHINGTON (Aug. 11) - Republicans determined to win in November are up against a troublesome trend - growing opposition to President Bush.

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted this week found the president's approval rating has dropped to 33 percent, matching his low in May. His handling of nearly every issue, from the Iraq war to foreign policy, contributed to the president's decline around the nation, even in the Republican-friendly South.

:D  People are turning their brains back on!  YAY! 

I know!  Exciting stuff, huh?

[Libra]

If you don't have time to read, the blip says it all...

For GOP, Bad Gets Worse in Northeast

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081406G.shtml

When it comes to President Bush and the Republican Congress, Rep. Jim Gerlach says
voters in his suburban Philadelphia district are in a "sour mood." That's
why when it comes to his reelection, the two-term incumbent says "the name
of the game" is to convince those same voters that he can be independent of
his own party. The Iraq war and Bush's low approval ratings have created trouble
for Republicans in all regions. But nowhere is the GOP brand more scuffed than in
the Northeast, where this year's circumstances are combining with long-term
trends to endanger numerous incumbents.

Now, if only we trusted the voting machines - and the Supreme Court!