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A collection of insightful ruminations, reflections, and rants on the events of the day (with the exception of the weekend). Come visit each weekday to see what's pushing Barbara's buttons.
March 20, 2006
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“Leaders of the US … preside over an empire, over the biggest military power the world has ever seen, which is now at war. The pressure on them to be seen to be conventionally masculine is therefore enormous. Just how Hillary Clinton in particular will cope with this in 2008 is not clear.” A word of advice to those who smugly believe it takes a man; Senator Hillary Clinton doesn’t have to cope, because the whole world knows she has more intellect and more back-bone than any “chickenhawk” the Repuglicans could ever rally to run against her!
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Just a hint directed to the Democrats in Washington, D.C. There comes a time when anger is called for---I am angry because thousands of innocent people have been killed in a preemptive unnecessary war, I am angry because 2400 American soldiers are dead. I am angry because the SCOTUS negated democracy and my vote in order to put a loser in the White House. I am angry because that loser chose to ignore an August 6th PDB that reliable intelligence produced in order to spell out for him “Osama determined to strike within the U.S.” I am angry because ignoring that PDB resulted in the deaths of over 3000 innocent people on September 11, 2001. I am angry because I can’t trust that my vote will be registered correctly on Repuglican owned voting machines. I am angry because I can’t trust that my vote will be counted. I am angry because the financial future of every child in America has been compromised so the rich can get richer. I am angry because some spoiled brat frat boy without the intellect necessary to do the job and his blowhard cohorts have done everything possible to undermine “freedom and democracy” in America, and that’s just for starters! There are a whole lot of Americans who have not imbibed the Bush Kool-Aid. There comes a time to call the Repuglicans on their hypocrisy, there comes a time when thinking people must stand up for what we believe in, there comes a time to say enough is enough, there comes a time when you must take a stand for for the values that really made America great and justice. That time is now---Impeach Bush and Cheney before the damage they’ve done to America is irreparable.
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Don’t tell me George Bush didn’t know what they were going to do---they pulled out of the International Court because they had every intention of launching a preconceived plan, think PNAC here, to dominate the world and to break International Law! Objections to Kyoto and various other international treaties were just a cover to justify pulling out of the court system to protect them from being tried for war crimes against peace!
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I used to believe the Repuglicans thought the Party was more important than America, now I see the Party is even more important than the religion some of these Repugs so conveniently claim! [scroll down] "'I wouldn't vote Democratic if Jesus Christ was running.' (--Judy Deats, a Texas Republican, who is standing by Rep. Tom DeLay in his re-election bid.)" What was that thing, you know the one, something about, “Thou shalt not have any other gods before ME,” yes that’s the one! Can you imagine her disappointment if someone explained to Ms. Deats, Tom DeLay is just an exterminator, who carried his foibles with him into the United States House of Representatives?
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Seems “Operation Swarmer” was just another “Wag the Dog” production brought to you by George W. Bush and Co. in an effort to boost his abysmal poll numbers! Don’t kid yourselves into thinking it was an effort to show off the Iraqi forces! And I wonder just how much did this PR epic end up costing the American taxpayer?
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Knowing all the reasons why Bush/Cheney should not order up an attack on Iran, won’t stop these bullies, especially when they can use our sons and daughters to do the fighting for them! It won’t stop another 9-11, because for them sacrificing a few for the many is justifiable! Bush/Cheney and this entire administration are nothing but a bunch of lunatics gone wild who think the “end justifies the means” and if creating another 9-11 is good reason to go to preemptive unnecessary war in Iran, then so be it! It could be coming to a town or city near you! Look out mom and dad for the draft, the breeze has already started to blow, look out America, if you think they’ve isolated us now, when they deliberately drop “nukeular” weapons on another country, America will become an “anything goes” for everyone that ever even for a minute thought “ugly American”! The longer the Democrats and the Repuglicans in Congress wait to rein in George Bush and Dick Cheney, the closer we all get to a preemptive Armageddon! Which by the way will affect the families and friends of Congressional members as well, keeping in mind Bush and Cheney firmly believe they have first dibs on that right of passage on a Rapture cloud that takes them and theirs, body and soul, up to heaven! Or in the event the Rapture doesn’t materialize, then that cave in Nebraska will most certainly insure their safety and security, while the rest of us are left on our own!
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The Repuglicans have introduced a bill to continue spying on Americans! They are negotiating with a crook so the crook can continue his crime spree, and I do believe that’s called aiding and abetting criminal conduct! If you think this “spying” is limited to foreigners, then you are as gullible and as dense as Mainstream Corporate Media pretends to be!
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It takes a dullard a while to catch up! George Bush has gone from “the best thing Americans can do to halt terrorism in its tracks is to go to the mall, go shopping,” and now, 3 excruciatingly long years later, to "More fighting and sacrifice will be required"!
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It’s doesn’t take a hop, skip, and a jump to realize that “government employees” who misrepresent themselves as FOX NEWS reporters, then as Secret Service, would be more than happy to “eavesdrop” on Americans without a warrant! It’s ridiculous to believe these people would limit their “eavesdropping” to terrorists, when they intentionally mislead American citizens! A “verbal reprimand”?? Posing as a Secret Service Agent is an act of fraud, a federal offense, and as such should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
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