WHEN W’s “NO CHILDS LEFT BEHIND” KIDS GROW UP
June 11, 2008
June 10, 2008
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
US Seeking 58 Bases in Iraq,
Shiite Lawmakers Say
Leila Fadel, of McClatchy Newspapers: “Iraqi lawmakers say the United States is demanding 58 bases as part of a proposed ‘status of forces’ agreement that will allow US troops to remain in the country indefinitely. Leading members of the two ruling Shiite parties said in a series of interviews the Iraqi government rejected this proposal along with another US demand that would have effectively handed over to the United States the power to determine if a hostile act from another country is aggression against Iraq. Lawmakers said they fear this power would drag Iraq into a war between the United States and Iran.”
http://www.truthout.org/article/us-seeking-58-bases-iraq-shiite-lawmakers-say
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June 9, 2008
It’s time to do this. – Grimgold
Struggling families across our great nation are receiving a special delivery from the federal government. They are looking for their promised stimulus rebate check from Uncle Sam.
Yes, that cash infusion is a welcome and needed “bump”… until you realize that our children will be paying back this money to China and other nations over their lifetimes so that we can jump-start our economy today.
Isn’t it really about time we had an honest economic stimulus package–one that attracts investment in the U.S. economy instead of chasing it away? Here’s one: It’s called the Fair Tax, and it’s the legacy our children and grandchildren deserve from us.
Grimgold
CONSERVATISM IS “SET OF NEUROSES”
OH THEM THAR SCIENCERS!
Study of Bush’s psyche touches a nerve
A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in “fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity”.
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report’s four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.
IT’S ABOUT TIME!
Dan Rather Slams Corporate News
at National Conference for Media Reform
Saturday 07 June 2008
by: Dan Rather, Free Press
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather delivered a blistering critique of corporate news on Saturday night at the National Conference for Media Reform hosted by Free Press.
The following are Dan Rather’s prepared remarks:
I am grateful to be here and I am, most of all, gratified by the energy I have seen tonight and at this conference. It will take this kind of energy – and more – to sustain what is good in our news media… to improve what is deficient… and to push back against the forces and the trends that imperil journalism and that – by immediate extension – imperil democracy itself.
The Framers of our Constitution enshrined freedom of the press in the very first Amendment, up at the top of the Bill of Rights, not because they were great fans of journalists – like many politicians, then and now, they were not – but rather because they knew, as Thomas Jefferson put it, that, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free… it expects what never was and never will be.”
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GIVE HIM A ‘PIECE’ MEDAL! HA HA HA
If they’re not stealing from the taxpayers’
they steal from each other.
Feds: Republican treasurer embezzled over $500k
Saturday June 7, 2008
Federal prosecutors are aiming to block the sale of the home of Christopher J. Ward, former treasurer of the National Republican Congressional Committee, over allegations that he shifted over $500,000 from Senate Republicans into his personal accounts over a four-year period to make mortgage payments and fund remodeling jobs.
According to the Department of Justice and an internal NRCC audit stemming from its accusations against Ward in March, he began embezzling in 2003. $198,841 in particular has been isolated by investigators, $95,000 of which is said to be from the 2006 President’s Dinner, to pay for work done on Ward’s house. Also diverted, say court documents, was $72,000 to make mortgage payments.
Ward, under investigation by the FBI, has been relieved of his duties with the NRCC but has yet to be charged criminally. Five GOP-connected organizations so far have implicated Ward in the misappropriation of at least $47,000, a far cry from what could have gone missing from the NRCC; an internal audit there suggests a figure of up to $600,000, but that audit is still in progress, said Karen Hanretty, NRCC’s communications director.
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