Pentagon Expands Rendition
A Feb. 5 memorandum from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeldcounsels support for a plan to transfer hundreds of suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen.
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Bush Says Deficit Fixed
Speaking in Alabama yesterday, President Bush repeated a familiar claim: “We’re fixing the deficit.” It doesn’t matter how many times he says it ? it’s still not true. In fact, the president’s most recent proposed budget would make the federal deficit much worse.
Read moreCancer In America
Spreading like wildfire, a cancer is infecting this country, devouring the flesh of our society and threatening to turn what was once the greatest nation on Earth into a rotting corpse of political corruption, greed and abuse of power. That cancer is Bus$hCo.
Read moreAre These Really Conservative Values?
“Oxymoron” is a fun concept many of us learned in high school that means a pair of words that contradict each other ? you know, like “jumbo shrimp.” I’m sorry to say it, but under the current administration, “Republican leadership” has become the new oxymoron.
Read moreWe’re protected
Isn?t this just grand, the home of free speech, liberty, tea parties, redressing of grievances, and other inalienable rights (but, as I should point out, no rights for aliens), the greatest generation, Atomic Bombing, B-52?s, and today we?re scared sh*tless of bad words and tits.
Read moreThe Repub Agenda?
The Republicans are now the governing body of the US, and they do have an agenda. If Democrats can make Bush fumble in 2005 by defeating the pinnacle of the anti-social Republican agenda, it’d go along way to crashing the Republican party’s hold on majority power.
Read moreStimulating Legislative Agendas
The Supreme Court has left intact a critical Alabama state law which bans the foulest form of evil in the modern world.
Read moreI Weep for America’s Lost Honor
I’ve written before about how I cannot believe that, in America, we are even having a discussion about the nuances of the legal issues surrounding torture. I am sickened and saddened that America’s values now allow this sort of thing. This is not about protecting America, its about a bunch of sick, arrogant aristocrats exercising their sadomasochistic urges under the guise of “protecting the homeland.”
Read moreI Weep for America's Lost Honor
I’ve written before about how I cannot believe that, in America, we are even having a discussion about the nuances of the legal issues surrounding torture. I am sickened and saddened that America’s values now allow this sort of thing. This is not about protecting America, its about a bunch of sick, arrogant aristocrats exercising their sadomasochistic urges under the guise of “protecting the homeland.”
Read moreBonuses For Bilking
Apparently the multi-billion-dollar no-bid contracts weren’t enough. Reuters reports that the U.S. Army has decided to award a Halliburton subsidiary $9.4 million in bonus payments for its work in Kuwait and Afghanistan, and plans to assess more projects for “bonuses that could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Read moreAnother Letter To Sen. Nelson
February 22, 2005 Hon. Bill Nelson United States Senate 716 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Nelson:
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