A brand new scandal for Tom DeLay.
By on Dec 31st, 2005 at 12:05 am
A brand new scandal for Tom DeLay.
New evidence uncovered by the Washington Post suggests DeLay received $1 million dollars in Russian oil money through a non-profit front group that he controlled.
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Wow, $1,000,000. Delay may be a whore but at least he is not a cheap whore.
December 31st, 2005 at 12:31 amI wonder when Dirty Harry Reid and Patrick Kennedy’s extensive ties to Jack Abramoff will be mentioned by this site (which is a part of SorosMedia)
The fact is that the odds suggest that Dirty Harry will get in a lot of trouble in this scandal. Reid is pretty much a corrupt figure.
I’m sure the Dems will keep campaigning against the so-called “Culture of Corruption” while their leader is in legal trouble.
When Reid gets in trouble, he should follow the example of Scooter Libby and resign from office.
December 31st, 2005 at 12:32 amA non-profit Delay controlled… with Jack Abramoff!
December 31st, 2005 at 12:50 amCongress has got to be shaking in it’s collective boots. At least… 5% of it is if 20 of the 435 congressmen are truly involved in this. A brief review of the contributions of Abramoff’s firms and friends (see links at The 10,000 Things) shows lots more congresscritters receiving money but not all of that is necessarily of an illegal nature nor even a lot of the squid pro crow provable in a court of law. It’ll be interesting to see just how many of these guys go down and how many are involved in defending themselves when election day rolls arouond.
December 31st, 2005 at 12:53 am#3
Guess what Gary, I bet a majority of people here agree with you, at least in part. Anyone who is found guilty of accepting bribes or illegal campaign contributions should be indicted and prosecuted. I, for one, don’t want any criminals in office, no matter what political party they are a member of. A crook is a crook. Can you say the same, or are you just another Republican apologist?
As for Reid, you sure do blather on and make a lot of unsubstantiated accusations of guilt. Would you care to provide any information to back it up? The last I heard, it was Delay who was indicted…
December 31st, 2005 at 12:55 amDeLay has only been indicted in a kangeroo court manner by a partisan.
If evidence came out that was compelling enough, I would hope Tom DeLay wouldn’t run for re-election.
The fact is that the current congress is one of the most ethical in history, and there’s a few isolated incidents which occur. Nothing like the House Bank. People like Newt, Dick Armey, and Tom DeLay cleaned up Capital Hill.
December 31st, 2005 at 1:08 am#8
“The fact is that the current congress is one of the most ethical in history, and there’s a few isolated incidents which occur. Nothing like the House Bank. People like Newt, Dick Armey, and Tom DeLay cleaned up Capital Hill.” -Gary
Bwahahaha, now that really is funny. Thanks for the good laugh, Gary.
December 31st, 2005 at 1:16 amWould that would be the same Newt that was having an affair while screaming about Clinton’s? Some ethics. Good point Gary, you almost made me a believer. As for Tom, the Republican mantra is to deny, then attack. Good to hear you have kept up on the right talking points.
December 31st, 2005 at 1:18 amI’m not particularly impressed if the best defense you can come up with is that Harry Reid might be in trouble too.
I don’t really care. Bust his backside too. Half of Congress does nothing but generate pork anyway.
If it’s going to take imprisoning 5% of Congress to get an honest session’s work out of them, SO BE IT.
December 31st, 2005 at 2:38 am“The fact is that the current congress is one of the most ethical in history, and there’s a few isolated incidents which occur. . .”
Oh. My. God. Truth is now officially dead for certain people.
“Nothing like the House Bank.”
Certainly not. That was peanuts compared to this. And, perhaps more importantly, that involved personal misconduct quite apart from official business. The shenanigans going on now involve corruption that pervert the very core of representative government.
“People like Newt, Dick Armey, and Tom DeLay cleaned up Capital Hill.”
I think Newt may have had somewhat honorable intentions (notice how HE’S gone now, too?). Dick Armey’s just a moron. But Tom DeLay’s a cancer. His ass in federal prison will clean up Capitol Hill more than any other event since Watergate.
December 31st, 2005 at 3:19 amThe regressives in the Republican Party have conducted a cold civil war for decades. Goldwater and Nixon escalated this cold civil war.
I consider George W Bush the 3rd president of the confederacy with Ronald Raygun the second.
GOP refers to Grand Old Plantation.
In the 1840’s and 1850’s the conservatives continued to hold slaves. Today the regressive Republicans want the minimum wage to lose further value in the face of inflation so companies can reap the ill gotten gains of wage slavery. The regressive Republicans have refused to extend unemployment insurance benefits beyond 6 months and this unfortunately burdens the person out of work and looking but it also falsely aids regressive republicans in the lie that now this person no longer appears unemployed and falsely lowers the unempployment rate.
The rebels unfortunately have taken over this union and wants to create another plantation system with outsourced jobs and low wages here for those who still have jobs while some sectors reap outrageously high profits at the expense of the poor and middle classes.
George W Bush: A CHIMP that will live in INFAMY.
How do we get a progressive agenda done today?
The answer appears in your wallet. I imagine each of you have studied the union movement. The union movement has brought us the 40 hour work week and the minimum wage. The union movement had focused on the individual employers to get these benefits.
Today corporations have taken over the Republican party and even write the legislation that hurts ordinary people.
We need to form our own ad hoc union and instead of going on a work strike we need to go on a purchasing strike. We need to target some of the major contributors of money to the Republican party as they pull the levers of power and they have the most to lose and they can get the pressure every day instead of the officeholders that only run every 2, 4 and 6 years.
We need to go on strike against Walmart, Wendy’s, Outback Steak House, Dominos Pizza, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Eckerd, CVS and Walgreens, GE and Exxon/Mobil.
We need to call these companies and thell them we have gone on strike against them until they get the RNC to hold a press conference announcing that they will accede to our demands of a TEN dollar an hour minimum wage, an unemployment insurance benefit that will last 1 year instead of 6 months, a real prescription drug benefit under Medicare of 80 percent coverage and no privatization of social security and increasing the social security payroll tax,removing the 88,000 dollar a year FICA taxable income limit, and vote by mail throughout the US with paper ballots and an independent civil service that registers people to vote and counts votes. We need this and more. You make the demands, you go on strike. You have the money and the Republican contributors either do as we want or they go broke under our purchasing strike.
To take action browse http://www.boycott-republicans.com
December 31st, 2005 at 3:40 amThe indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff must decide by Tuesday whether he will accept a plea or stand trial on fraud charges in a Florida case, a judge in Federal District Court told Mr. Abramoff’s lawyers and prosecutors in a court hearing on Friday.
In a conference call, Judge Paul C. Huck of Miami told the two sides to inform the court about their plans and set a hearing for 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
If no agreement is reached, Mr. Abramoff will stand trial in Miami on Jan. 9.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/31/politics/31abramoff.html
December 31st, 2005 at 4:14 amI was about to congratulte Judd on a fine year – finishing 15th on Technorati’s list of the top 100 blogs. Then I saw this. A tissue of speculation and innuendo that proves nothing. None of the details referred to in the WaPo article appears to be even close to illegal – but the reader is invited to draw that conclusion. I guess the Left must be getting nervous about Ronnie Earle, whose much ballyhooed Texas prosecution is imploding as we speak – er, write.
Well, I won’t let another dose of fever swamp speculation and innuendo spoil my good mood. Happy New Year, Judd. Here’s hoping you’ve learned from the mistakes you’ve made in 2005. May 2006 be more fair, more accurate and more balanced in 2006!
December 31st, 2005 at 4:26 pm“In the 1840’s and 1850’s the conservatives continued to hold slaves. Today the regressive Republicans want the minimum wage to lose further value in the face of inflation so companies can reap the ill gotten gains of wage slavery.”
See, what’d I tell ya? Just a couple days ago I pointed out that the Democratic Party has decided to take no position regarding Iraq as we head into the 2006 election season. Instead, it has decided to campaign on increasing the minimum wage.
I was right: Teenagers at Burger King are more important to “progressives” than teenagers on the battlefield in Iraq. So much for “supporting the troops.”
December 31st, 2005 at 4:32 pm“The fact is that the current congress is one of the most ethical in history,..”
Gary, only in Bizarro world is this true. You are truly delusional. Nice to know anything future you write isn’t worth my time.
December 31st, 2005 at 4:48 pmDid someone say ethical and politician in the same sentence?
“In that case, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York…failed to provide adequate oversight of the banks with which it had contracted to serve as depositories of billions of U.S. dollars in cash,” Shelby said.
In later questioning, Bies wouldn’t say whether UBS’s actions were illegal.
“The only thing I will (say) is that when you have collusion to manage the information that comes to the Federal Reserve, there is some kind of intent,” Bies said. “And…also, the collusion, made it difficult for us to detect it.”
wonder what a Google of Riggs Bank+George H. W. Bush brings up..Google Searchhref=”http://banking.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Articles.Detail&Article_id=60&Month=6&Year=2004″>Article
December 31st, 2005 at 4:55 pmHark! You hear that? All the fallen angels are starting to sing. Could the head of the snake getting chopped off be THAT far off?
Buh-bye bushy! Your corrupt ass WILL go down, one way of another.
ROFLMAO!!!!
December 31st, 2005 at 5:20 pmTom DeLaundry
Gary? Give it up. Go make some friends.
December 31st, 2005 at 5:20 pmTom DeLay is so 2005. Now, we are in 2006 and we are going to be discussing the Supreme Court and the NSA program – both which favor the GOP. Why do liberals always shoot themselves in the foot – we are talking about President Bush’s strong suit – fighting terror. AND you folks are on the wrong side of the issue.
As for Alito, he will be seated on the High Court and the countdown for Ginsburg to retire begins. 2006 will likely cause liberals more pain – they simply are not wanted in America anymore. I hear Al Queda loves liberals though.
December 31st, 2005 at 5:49 pm#17, so the Republicans are supporting our troops by sending the dead back as cargo, instead of the proper way of military honor guard being present at the Air force plan and accompaning the body to the survivors.
Did you know that more than 60% of the troops that come back from war are below a poverty level? Did you know that the cuts that the Republicans have done actually cut into the troops benefits when they come home?
Did you know that the troops are trown to the side when they get back and are ignored and not provided the things they truely need to support themselves after war?
Now at least the Democrates are trying to provide AMERICANs with the ability to try and stay afloat. There is nothing that the Republicans are doing to help the middle or lower class.
I suppose that you are one of the 5% that the republicans help? Since you seem to support them and feel that taking from the poor and giving to the rich is better than trying to help the poor.
I hope you have a nice New Year and that you wake up next year.
December 31st, 2005 at 5:52 pmNancy, I hope that some day you are stopped by the police and strip searched by them without a female officer around. This is where the country is heading and it is going to be on you and your kind for allowing Hitler to take over our country. Once a criminal always a criminal. Grandpa Bush was laundering money for Hitler, so this is where the family learned how to be criminals.
December 31st, 2005 at 5:55 pmSpending another new year’s alone, NED?
December 31st, 2005 at 5:58 pmKenneth L. Lay
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Enron Corp.
P.O. Box 1188
Houston, TX 77251-1188
713-853-6773
Fax 713-853-5313
April 3, 1997
Via Fax: 512/463-1849
The Honorable George W. Bush
Governor of the State of Texas
PO Box 12428
Austin, Texas
Dear George,
You will be meeting with Ambassador Sadyq Safaev, Uzbekistan’s Ambassador to the United States, on April 8th. Ambassador Safaev has been Foreign Minister and the senior advisor to President Karimov before assuming his nation’s most significant foreign responsibility.
Enron has established an office in Tashkent and we are negotiating a $2 billion joint venture with Neftegas of Uzbekistan and Gazprom of Russia to develop Uzbekistan’s natural gas and transport it to markets in Europe, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. This project can bring significant economic opportunities to Texas, as well as Uzbekistan. The political benefits to the United States and to Uzbekistan are important to that entire region.
Ambassador Safaev is one of the most effective of the Washington Corps of Ambassadors, a man who has the attention of his president, and a person who works daily to bring our countries together. For all these reasons, I am delighted that the two of you are meeting.
I know you and Ambassador Safaev will have a productive meeting which will result in a friendship between Texas and Uzbekistan.
Sincerely,
Ken
Natural gas. Electricity. Endless possibilities
December 31st, 2005 at 6:22 pmDecember 20, 2005
Foreign office staff threatened resignations in bid to stop US bombing of Al Jazeera. Jack Straw lies over CIA flights.
From Ringverse
The British Foreign Office privately accepts that CIA rendition flights did pass through its territory, a diplomatic source told United Press International.
The well-placed source said the Foreign Office “totally accepts” that the United States used British airfields to transfer prisoners abroad for interrogation, and is “extremely worried” about the political consequences.
The revelation comes amid growing signs of divergence between London and Washington over the way in which the war on terror should be conducted.
When British Prime Minister Tony Blair learnt in April 2003 that the United States had bombed a Baghdad hotel in which several media organizations were housed, killing three journalists, he “literally jumped out of his chair,” the source told UPI. The Foreign Office was “horrified,” considering the attack to be “obscene,” the source said.
London took the same attitude towards a U.S. suggestion that it would attack the Qatar headquarters of the Arabic language television al-Jazeera, the source said.
Foreign Office officials threatened to resign if the Americans went ahead with the attacks, revealed in a Downing Street memo leaked to the British media earlier this year.
Blair reportedly talked U.S. President George W. Bush out of the attacks, warning it could fuel a worldwide backlash. The Mirror newspaper quoted a source as saying: “There’s no doubt what Bush wanted, and no doubt Blair didn’t want him to do it.”
December 31st, 2005 at 6:25 pm#24 – invoke Hitler all you want – you people would have let him stay in power if you were running the show back in 1945. Luckily, the Democrats had not been taken over by terrorist sympathizers and FDR fought to stop the genocide. Just like Bush is doing now.
Trashing Prescott Bush with no evidence is about right for Democrats. I remember Prescott’s vote in favor of civil rights – what were Bob Byrd and Al Gore’s positions on civil rights.
RemoveBush – keep living in your fantasy world where you think the President cares about wiretapping your calls. He doesn’t. The issue is the treason committed by the scoundrels that leaked it.
December 31st, 2005 at 6:28 pmNancy-
Stop abusing the good woman’s name and start paying attention to the truth, not fantasy.
Are you Mighty Aphrodite? IRI, or just another troll to be baked in the oven?
December 31st, 2005 at 6:55 pmNancy, treason is violating the Constitution of the United States. The president to UPHOLD and DEFEND the constitution, not the American people. He has faile horribly and has committed the HIGHEST TREASON there is. He deserves to be lynched on the WH lawn in front of millions of people.
To quote your president “if the American people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the streets and lynch us.” So you see, your president has even stated that he knows what he is doing and has done is criminal.
Hope you enjoy your freedoms while they last. Notice how the president is slowly taking and moving his people into power and removing the military? Notice how positions that are and have been for generations are now being moved out of power so that Bush and his communist friends can take control and further destroy our lovely Constitution.
But you would not care because you desire to be back in the dark ages. You and your kind are why civilizations fall, just look at Rome, Germany, and the many other countries that did not last under dictator ship.
As for genocide, if your kind was so concerned you would have stepped in and protected the African people. But it’s not about humanity with you guys its about OIL. PERIOD.
December 31st, 2005 at 6:59 pm#28 -
December 31st, 2005 at 7:07 pmNancy,
Lest we forget, Hitler was in Berlin when it collapsed to the Soviet Union. At that time, the Soviet Union consisted of about 35 ethnic groups. The most sadistic and cruelest ethnic groups were assigned the Hitler bunker by Stalin. Hitler knew this and chose suicide over a slow death by flaying, crucifixion, boiling oil or burning at the stake.
Abramhoff is going to take them all down. He’s a pansy who can’t just do his time like the real mafia.
Delay would have had more success of covering his crimes had he hired people that weren’t mafia wanna be’s.
If the Washington Post can uncover this much I’m positive that real detectives and investigators have mountains of evidence.
See ya Delay and all that support him, don’t drop the soap.
December 31st, 2005 at 7:10 pmHey Nancy Reagan wannabe,
Where’s Osama Bin Laden?
How’s things in Iraq? (Assuming you are a real American and are blogging from there)
Get used to the fact that our history books will compare Bushie with Hitler, yes, your children and grandchildren will learn in the classroom that mommie supported a brutal dictator.
December 31st, 2005 at 7:16 pm“invoke Hitler all you want – you people would have let him stay in power if you were running the show back in 1945.”
We were “running the show in ‘45″ – were you home schooled?
December 31st, 2005 at 7:25 pmTo add to #30’s post:
Re: Bush getting rid of the military? Or, is the following true?
The motivation is their fantasy of a palatial World Kingdom Capitol, with them all sitting there in the blood-stained, oil-filled country of Iraq, in a huge Rumsfeld-Condi-Bolton obtained gilded palace (the new embassy they are reportedly building now?) Just ruling away!
Now, who is getting all the money together for this shindig? Where are the $mils now missing? Where is the biggest portion of our budget going? The Military is getting the biggest portion of our budget! Our national debt is $__ trillion or gazillion?
Do you think Kristol, the “real” Pentagon Chiefs, Military Defense Contractors, et al, want someone such as the bike-wrecking, 3-nadded, wobble walker GWB, Snarlin Bag Cheney or Snookums McClellan, Smirkin Rove, or Hands “Gimme a cat” Frist anywhere there. POTUS, SCOTUS, the Justice Dept., the intoxicated or over-medicated Congress, et al, can’t be wanted there.
What’s with this, “can’t fire Rumsfeld”, anyway? And, why is Oliver North, the former tv character “ALF,” on Fox?
December 31st, 2005 at 7:59 pmGary Ruppert wrote:
Tom DeLay said 11 long years ago:
I couldn’t agree more.
December 31st, 2005 at 9:23 pmNancy wrote:
Eh? The Janjaweed put their camels out to pasture?
December 31st, 2005 at 9:30 pmThis is really good.
December 31st, 2005 at 9:44 pmDeLay is so dirty the indictments
are going to come from every direction.
Happy year year everybody!
I knew the Abramoff would be a huge
problem for the malathion sniffer.
Seems everyone is jumping to convict, just another press report with no relivence. We seem to have too many other problems out there, rather than to delve into the crap that its exposused here.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:09 pmAh, there’s nothing like the smell of self-delusional b.s. pumped out by the GOP trolls at this site. Sometimes I do wonder whether right-wingers can experience cognitive dissonance. They surely seem to have a very limited view of history.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:09 pmWould you like to discuss the relivence of REDLEG
December 31st, 2005 at 10:15 pmRedlegs went through Missouri and Kansas, during the civil war. Killing, raping, maiming and tortoring civilians. LoC chceck it out.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:24 pmRedlegs went through Missouri and Kansas, during the civil war. Killing, raping, maiming and tortoring civilians. LoC chceck it out.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:24 pmDeLay is such toast.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:32 pmHere’s to the new year and the end
of the fascist GOP machine.
DeLay is such toast.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:34 pmHere’s to the new year and the end
of the fascist GOP machine.
Toast?
December 31st, 2005 at 10:40 pmBrandy, #39, you’re right about the number of problems we’re facing today. Go ahead a provide us with a list, though, anyway. I want to see how many are middle or left-of-center generated.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:44 pmBrandy, #39, you’re right about the number of problems we face today. Go ahead and provide us with a list, though, anyway. I want to see how many are middle and left-of-center generated.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:46 pmSorry about the dupe.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:47 pmI would love to see your list, mine is relatively small
December 31st, 2005 at 10:50 pmOh well, my list is relitvely small… apparently you have more than me, so fire away.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:53 pmGee Nancy, I seen womens menstrual cycle do many strange things. But to take ones mind like it has OBVIOUSLY done with you is pathetic. Perhaps a shot of estrogen would help you regain your sanity.
But then again, I think that you’re beyond any help.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:58 pmOK, i’m not exactly a huge brain here, i’m in highschool and baby sitting, i have exactly 55 more minutes.
December 31st, 2005 at 11:00 pm50 minutes, would still like to hear from the proud REDLEG
December 31st, 2005 at 11:05 pm45 minutes till i go home, where’s the REDLEG rapist
December 31st, 2005 at 11:10 pm40 minutes, still waiting
December 31st, 2005 at 11:15 pmWoops… sent my name befoe
December 31st, 2005 at 11:17 pmBrandy, my point is that any current list of problems, lengthy or short, will be predominantly republican (or at least Bush administration) created. To deny that Delay’s nonsense is even on the radar screen because there are far more important issues to address is bs. Delay’s corruption(such as redistricting)is so extensive and so much water already under the bridge that it will take years, if even then, to be corrected. This whole administration are craftsmen at making sure you only see billowing clouds of smoke, and rarely the fire in which to prosecute them. They spend their time making sure you lose track of where the
December 31st, 2005 at 11:22 pmpea is.
OK, 35 minutes. I get paid, I go home. So disappointed, some jerk calling himself redleg after the terrorists in missorur, and someone asking really stupid questions. Dan said this was really a great place to get a laugh, i disagree.
December 31st, 2005 at 11:22 pm#17 Red, I guess you have no respect for teenagers who work
to get more than they deserve. I think it’s stupid to compare teens who work at minimum wage jobs to teens fighting to survive at the battle fronts of Iraq. And it’s the fault of the adults because they think teens are expendable at the request of a chickenhawk administration.
I think that we have to provide a better legacy for teens and to understand them overall. If teens deserve more than what they are being paid, then more power to them. Prices
for gas, cell phone service, movies, DVDs, hamburgers, pizza,etc. have gone up since the last federal increase on minimum wage. They probably get paid much as the typical Wal-Mart employee.
If you think the typical 16-19 year old doesn’t deserve a
better life in this country, then apparently, you do not support a minimum wage increase. And apparently, you don’t want any teen in this country to have a better future outside of joining gangs and turning to a life of crime.
Think about it.
December 31st, 2005 at 11:27 pmWhoa JIMBO… wwwwwwwherrrrrrrrrre u from….. aint got no kid do u.
December 31st, 2005 at 11:29 pm20 minutes, i hope
December 31st, 2005 at 11:35 pmFor what it’s worth, 2006 will be the ninth year in a row that the federal minimum wage has been $5.15/hour.
December 31st, 2005 at 11:36 pmOK, it’s more than I get, but…………
December 31st, 2005 at 11:37 pm15 Minutes till 2006..
December 31st, 2005 at 11:40 pmIt’s already 2006 here in Sydney.
December 31st, 2005 at 11:43 pmHappy New Year.. Dan & Fam home, got ur url
December 31st, 2005 at 11:43 pmI just found out that the asshole president (glad I respect him so much) will be in Chicago at The Board Of Trade telling everyone how great the economy is. I would go IF I had any hope in hell of actually getting in, seeing as I have zero respect for the douche-nozzle.
I would LOVE to have the opportunity to show him EXACTLY how “good” his economy REALLY is.
Hey slapnuts, try touring some of the missions and food pantries in the area. I HAVE (for future interviews on The Debtonator Radio Show-shameless plug)and have met some really interesting people. Such as:
The computer guy with MCSE, Networking and Multimedia experience that has been out of work for two years because the market has gone flat. bushy doesn’t care about HIM because his unemployment ran out a long time ago and he no longer is a statistic.
Or how about the ASE certified mechanic that can’t find work that pays more than $9 an hour or the woman who worked at the same job for 23 years only to be let go due to outsourcing.
I won’t EVEN get into escallating costs of goods and services and a declining wage for the jobs that DO exist.
So bubbleboy, do America a favor and pull your head out of your ass and look at what you have done to a country that was once strong and prosperous. A country that was ONCE respected.
Looking at you bushy makes me realize that cousins should really never screw. You inbred piece of feces.
***PHEW! I feel much better now that thats off my chest. Thanks TP for letting me vent. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
January 1st, 2006 at 10:32 amWe need to form our own ad hoc union and instead of going on a work strike we need to go on a purchasing strike. We need to target some of the major contributors of money to the Republican party as they pull the levers of power and they have the most to lose and they can get the pressure every day instead of the officeholders that only run every 2, 4 and 6 years.
We need to go on strike against Walmart, Wendy’s, Outback Steak House, Dominos Pizza, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Eckerd, CVS and Walgreens, GE and Exxon/Mobil.
Ben Franklin – I agree 100%. Their Achilles heel is MONEY. I’ve personally been boycotting companies like Exxon for years. I also, last year, decided to give up consumerism out of the theory that it was the best way to hit the Corporate Greed. On my own, I’m sure I’ve had little impact, but by refusing to watch or read commercials and advertizements unless I seek them out, by refusing to go into Target for a $3 toothbrush and buying $300 worth of goods becuase I wandered around instead of just getting what I needed, and by instead spending my money on me (independent travel, education, life experiences) rather than ‘things’, I’ve stopped having panic attacks over finances, stopped laying awake at night worrying about being a slave to my job, stopped having headaches, colds, back aches, etc. My life is much healthier as a non-consumer as well… Now, if we could all just band together, we’d all be healthier, nicer to one another and make some changes to the system…
I would also like to mention asking for campaign reform. Free elections where we can choose true representatives rather than the two bought masks that Corporate America gives us to select between. It’s as good as no choice at all.
January 1st, 2006 at 10:49 amRight on! Organizing such things would be a daunting task. It has been my experience that people don’t have the same drive as they did in the 60’s. I would LOVE to see everyone boycott gas by simply NOT DRIVING for ONE DAY. Not to much to ask for but it would make a loud statement.
Sad to say, we NEED some anarchy. Some rioting in the streets. Maybe THEN our ELECTED leaders will get the message.
Ahhhhhhh, a man CAN dream!
January 1st, 2006 at 11:00 amWhen I moved to San Francisco, I thought it would be a great place to get involved in their hippie style of protests (I was just born around that time). I have to say, I was greatly disappointed when I instead found Corporate America had chased out the artists and hippies and replaced them with working class drones. And I realized that we had all become too tired and broke to protest now – even the college students – exactly what the tyrants wanted…
January 1st, 2006 at 11:45 amThis paragraph says it all, there is a witness.
One of the former associates, a Frederick, Md., pastor named Christopher Geeslin who served as the U.S. Family Network’s director or president from 1998 to 2001, said Buckham further told him in 1999 that the payment was meant to influence DeLay’s vote in 1998 on legislation that helped make it possible for the IMF to bail out the faltering Russian economy and the wealthy investors there.
“Ed told me, ‘This is the way things work in Washington,‘ ” Geeslin said.
Either the Pastor is a liar (always a possibility) or he will be testifying against Delay.
January 1st, 2006 at 11:50 amRegarding 8 above:
I look at it like this: I will gladly sacrifice a few Pawns from our side, to get those Knights, Bishops, and Rooks (or should I say “crooks”) from that other side. Maybe we might even get a King too!
Bring it on!
-peaceoutbaby!
January 3rd, 2006 at 11:16 amBrandy,
January 11th, 2006 at 11:29 pmDon’t assume you know what “Redleg” means and don’t refer to me as a rapist. I am a former artilleryman, in Army lingo, a Redleg. Get it? Good.
$1 million from Russians is nothing compared to this new Uncovered Scam! DEAD FOSTER CHILDREN LIFE INSURANCE SCAM COVERED UP!
It was reported to Congress on March 13, 2004, and AFRA went to DC to turn in hundreds of cases with evidence, and Tom DeLay showed up with the Head of Lutheran Social Services Senske, a lawyer, and thrwarth a Congressional Investigation. Learn about where the New Legislation was slipped in to make what was ILLEGAL, now Legal supposedly! Children are paying with there LIVES!
Here are FAKE REPORTS!
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/publicantions/cm))/taqble5_3.thm (Child Maltreatment 2000 Table 5-3 Child Fatalities in Foster Care 2000) Look at New York and Texas and California for EXAMPLE.
Look!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/42203p-39826c.html
Now go to Texas State Comptroller Website, go to search type in “Forgotten Children” go to page 220, look at Child Fatality Reports in Texas, ! Somebody has some Splainin’ to do!
Like how is it legal for politically connected group foster homes to take life insurance out on STATE CHILDREN?
Isn’t the State The Fiduciary, and how is the group foster home having and insurable interest?
Isn’t that like a hospital taking life insurance out on their patients? Or a nursing home taking life insurance out on their residents?
Oh, I forgot Texas is running a DEAD PEASANT LIFE INSURANCE SCAM! Oooops.
Here is where the life insurance on foster care children was put NOT in the Foster Care legislation that would have raised RED FLAGS. HERE SEE!
http://www.ita.doc.ogv/hrm/fegli.html
Republican Sponsored and Backed!
Then Amended a few months later upping limits to 500% higher on the children in foster care, they stuck that legislation under OPtion C, toward very end! SKIP thru the pages toward end, yeah they some smart corrupters!
VOTE ON UNELECTION DAY! Tom vs. Tom The Hammer vs. the Wrench, Congressman vs. Former Foster Child who will win!
Oh, Richard DeLay came by my place of employment he says, hi! And the Russians, the two guys who came by and made teh remark “they would just come back and shoot me” do they always say goodbye that way, I was wondering to if the one didn’t speak english, what kind of job do they have in San Antonio, TX, isn’t it hard to work only speaking Russian? Just wondering?
March 7th, 2006 at 11:15 pm‘Someone has some Splainin’ to do !”
Sorry about links.
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/publications/cm))/talbe5_3.thm
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/42203p-39826c.html
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm02/table4_1.htm
http://www.ita.doc.gov/hrm/fegli.html
http://www.opm.gov/asd/htm/1999/bal99-212.htm
You think they would put this in the foster care legislation and raise a RED FLAG! Oh, look who gave to camaign in 1997 Insurance PAC! They openly advertise to take life insurance out on foster care children. I was wondering how come they are under a Federal Investigation multi-state for RICO Rackateering, Just wondering?
The Wrench vs. the hammer
March 7th, 2006 at 11:21 pmYes, it is true Tom DeLay cleaned out Congress like the man said, above …….cleaned out all the good and honest people….that is very true. And it is the most HONEST accorinding to DeLay defense fund buddies!
March 21st, 2006 at 10:19 pmhttp://media.familyrights.us/expose/ExposeV2005.pdf
Here is the Congressional Hearing, the Congressional Investigation was Thwarthed by Tom DeLay and the Head of Lutheran Social Services on June 6, 2006, when they showed up uninvited and stopped a Congressional Investigation into the FRAUD and Covered up FOSTER CARE DEATH REPORTS.
What a Conincidence, I noticed that the Lutheran Social Services Boys went to Russia too, and that they have the biggest State Foster Care Contract in Texas, and that Senske the Lawyer the Head of Lutheran social Services showed up with Tom DeLay to thwarth a Congressional Investigation on June 6, 2004.
Good thing they did THE DEAD CHILDREN COVERED UP, ………….Republican PL 105-311, stuck in the end in Option C, then amended a few months later to raise limits 500% on Foster Children for Life Insurance.
We wouldn’t want the public finding out …………..that we is why we are telling you so that you can tell people not to tell anyone so nobody will find out! Keep it a Secret remember don’t tell about PL 105-311, cuz the Republicans sponsored and backed it, I noticed that Insurance PAC money in 1997, was sweet! WINK WINK! Nice 1998 legislation! Compliments to the corrupters!
March 23rd, 2006 at 10:42 amDeLay Defense Fund, Abramoff – Corruption! “THOSE WHO BACKED MUST GET PACKED!”
“I don’t think we need to line the pockets of our cronies, said Gammage, who’s been accusing Perry of being part of a corrupt political machine stretching from Texas to Washington.” – Associated Press.
“The state also has a standing $15,000 a month lobbying contract with the Federalist Group which emplyed U.S. Rep Tom DeLay’s former chief of staff, Drew Maloney”. – Associated Press.
DeLay Defense Fund, Abramoff – Corruption! “THOSE WHO BACKED MUST GET PACKED”!
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