Awwww!

No one is obligated anymore to deal politely with this guy.
All across the world people have seen what's going on here more clearly than we have.

More Bad Words

Wonderful satire...?
- or Is peace still a joking matter?

Come on, Al !! Recount starts today.

Two weeks after the closest U.S. Senate election
in Minnesota history,




a massive hand recount of all 2.9 million votes
gets underway today,with local officials working under the scrutiny of top lawyers brought in by both candidates.


At stake is possible control of the Senate, where Democrats are within a few seats of a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority, putting intense pressure on county auditors who now find they may have to explain every decision they made in the closest race in the country.





imagine how much fun the Senate would be...






everyone would start watching CSPAN!

Pick a card, any card

like to gamble?
how about with human lives?

here's a fun way to see who really hits the jackpot!









http://www.ruckus.org/warprofiteers/cards/index.html

Excellent article about economic coup

There is no way to reconcile the public's vote for change with the market's foot-stomping for more of the same. Any and all moves to change course will be met with short-term market shocks. The good news is that once it is clear that the new rules will be applied across the board and with fairness, the market will stabilize and adjust. Furthermore, the timing for this turbulence has never been better.

Over the past three months, we've been shocked so frequently that market stability would come as more of a surprise. That gives Obama a window to disregard the calls for a seamless transition and do the hard stuff first. Few will be able to blame him for a crisis that clearly predates him, or fault him for honoring the clearly expressed wishes of the electorate. The longer he waits, however, the more memories fade.


for the rest of this excellent article:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081201/klein


Those looking for ideology in the White House
should consider this:
For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people. ---Naomi Klein

A FRANK Discussion about Colin Powell

from 5.17.04:

Appearing on Meet the Press, Powell acknowledged--finally!--that he and the Bush administration misled the nation about the WMD threat posed by Iraq before the war. Specifically, he said that he was wrong when he appeared before the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003, and alleged that Iraq had developed mobile laboratories to produce biological weapons. That was one of the more dramatic claims he and the administration used to justify the invasion of Iraq. (Remember the drawings he displayed.) Yet Powell said on MTP, "it turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and in some cases, deliberately misleading." Powell did not spell it out, but the main source for this claim was an engineer linked to the Iraqi National Congress, the exile group led by Ahmed Chalabi, who is now part of the Iraqi Governing Council.

and this is some good reading, here...



Ray McGovern: Out Damn Blot: A Letter to Colin Powell

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