An unruly employee who disobeys his employer’s orders and acts upon his will only deserves to be fired.

IMPEACH.

HILARIOUS. Apparently you didn’t watch the speeches.

If you don’t know why Speaker Pelosi is one of the best politicians in modern history, listen to some of the speeches this last week:

http://www.youtube.com/user/NancyPelosi

Don’t miss Rep. Nadler, or Rep. Franks, Rep. Rangel, Rep. Lantos, or Rep. Wexler.

Some of the most powerful indictments of the Iraq war strategy you can find.

In the Leftist world, a ‘Good Dictator’ will just announce the policy — no democracy needed! But these will be Good policies, not bad policies like the rightwing Dictator.

For the rest of us, the process ignited by Speaker Pelosi and ML Hoyer is only too obvious to see, IF you watch the speeches. If you don’t, you can continue to pine for the Good Dictator to rise up and magically be elected with 3% of the vote.

the 2 dems that voted against the resolution are Taylor and Marshall….not sure of the state….could look that up too.

and there were several republic….s that voted for the resolution

now for something that has teeth in it!
what is next, Ms. Pelosi?

1. Everything changed on 9/11
2. Republicans are evil
3. You’re picky about which lies you opt to believe
4. If we don’t vote, we have no right to complain…right?
5. Republicans are mean
6. Voting for Hillary or Obama would prove once and for all that you are
truly more liberal and open-minded than your Republican brother-in-law
7. Republicans are stupid
8. Ralph Nader is still an egomaniac
9. Republicans hate us because we’re free
10. You’re certifiably insane

Mickey Z. can be found on the Web at
http://www.mickeyz.net.

Ten Reasons Why Militarism is
Bad for Queer People

http://popdev.hampshire.edu/projects/dt/pdfs/DifferenTakes_21.pdf

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and
queer (lgbtq) people cut across race, class,
gender, and nationality lines and represent a
full spectrum of political opinions.There
are queer people in the military and a
visible queer presence at almost every
recent peace rally. Queer organizations,
listserves, and communities have been rife
with debates about what position to take on
a war with Iraq. Meanwhile, lgbtq people
remain under attack by military and
fundamentalist governments around the
world, including the U.S.While some might
argue that war is not a queer issue, the fact
of the matter is that state violence has been
a central theme in the history and lives of
lgbtq people for centuries. No matter what your politics, here are
some basic facts to keep in mind about war’s effect on queer
people’s lives:

1.War decreases civil liberties,freedom of expression,and dissent.
In times of crisis, already marginalized groups and under-resourced
populations are blamed and attacked. Jerry Falwell, Religious Right
figurehead, accused queer people and feminists for the 9.11
terrorists attacks two days after they took place:“I really believe
that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the
gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an
alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way — all
of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger
in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’”
In the wake of 9.11, progressive social justice organizations who
speak out against military action are often criticized for being un-
American or paving the way for more terrorist attacks. In addition
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender anti-war activists are
frequently targeted by the police at protests, marches, and rallies
and face harassment and physical violence if put in prison.

2.Hate crimes increase during periods of militarism.
Since the attacks of 9.11, the number of hate crimes has risen
dramatically across the board in the U.S. Attacks against Muslims,
South Asians, and those of Middle Eastern descent skyrocketed, and
hate crimes based on sexual orientation rose 7.2% from 2000.
Hate crimes committed on the basis of sexual orientation ranked
fourth highest category in 2001.The rise in hate crimes since 9.11
suggests that queer people are among the
first to be victimized in a climate of
militarism, violence, and fear. Queer people
of color are doubly impacted, facing
harassment and violence not only on the
basis of their racial identity, but also
because of their sexual orientation. In the
name of national security, the Bush
administration has turned a blind eye to
violence against queer people and people of
color since 9.11

at the hands of the military.
Sexual orientation is often used as a way to
criminalize social justice activists who are
working for peace. Bolan Aleksov, a gay
man from Yugoslavia, was arrested by the
State Secret Service in 2000 because of his
involvement with the anti-war group,
Women in Black. During the course of his
interrogation he was beaten and endured
anti-gay epithets by the police. In Uganda
in 1999, five gay, human rights activists
were held and tortured in military detention
centers and forced to flee the country.
4.The military discriminates against
lgbtq service people.
The military has always been hostile to
queer people. As a result of the “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” policy, set in place by the
Clinton administration, queer service people
are required to keep their sexuality a secret
or face discharge. In this atmosphere of
secrecy, discrimination and harassment are
state-sanctioned. In 2001, as attention and
spending on the military increased and the
U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan
was at its height, 1250 service people
where discharged for being lesbian, gay, or
bisexual, the highest number of discharges
since 1987.The Conduct Unbecoming
report, issued by the Service Members
Legal Defense Network, also found 1075
cases of harassment and intimidation of lgbtq servicepeople, up
from 871 in 2000.
Discrimination against queer people seems to be one of the
military’s top priorities. At a time when the ability to communicate
with a wide range of people across the world is extremely
important, the U.S. military has fired service people with valuable
translation and language skills because of their sexual orientation.
In the fall of 2002, as an extensive military build-up was taking
place in the Middle East, the Army discharged nine student
linguists, including students of Arabic and Korean, for violating the
“don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

5.Militarism threatens lgbtq immigrants.
Queer immigrants and asylum seekers face significant challenges to
immigrating even in peacetime. Because homosexuality is considered
a crime and/or disease in many countries, lgbtq immigrants are
often fleeing state-sanctioned torture, forced psychiatric treatment,
persecution, rape, and imprisonment on the basis of their sexual
orientation. Few immigration officers are trained to solicit
information about past abuses in ways that are sensitive, and queer
asylum-seekers are often reluctant to tell officials about their sexual
orientation for fear of further persecution.While one partner of a
heterosexual married couple can sponsor the other partner for
immigration, because same-sex couples are not legally recognized as
family in most of the world, couples often have to immigrate alone,
cannot sponsor their partners, and cannot receive the rights that
immigrating families receive.
Since 9.11 many countries, including the U.S. and several European
countries, have used national security and the threat of terrorism to
justify restrictive immigration policies and the crackdown on illegal
immigration. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people who
have fled persecution in their own countries now risk being arrested
as illegal immigrants and deported back to those countries

6.War is divisive for the lgbtq community.
As the government wages war on Iraq, heated debates have broken
out in lgbtq communities about whether to publically oppose the
war. Large organizations fear being labeled as unpatriotic and
losing funding if they speak out against the war.There have been
widespread accusations of racism in the lgbtq community, and even
calls to boycott or withdraw membership from lgbtq advocacy and
support groups who have not made public statements in opposition
to the war.

7.Militarism and war diverts support
for lgbtq people.
The focus of the U.S. government on the
“War On Terrorism” has come at the
expense of basic support services for lgbtq
people. Community organizations that
provide support for queer youth, HIV/AIDS
counseling, and referrals have experienced
extreme budget cutbacks, while government
spending on the military has skyrocketed. In
February 2002, President Bush proposed a
national budget for FY 2003 that would
raise defense spending by nearly 13%, the
greatest increase since the Reagan
Administration’s Cold War era budget. In
2004, President Bush hopes to increase the
US military budget to $399.1 billion, while
funding to social services would be
sacrificed in order to support this increase
in military spending. Recently, Illinois cut
$2.5 million designated for AIDS/HIV
support services and Massachusetts cut
funding for its Safe Schools Program that
provides support for lgbtq students and
youth.

8.Militarism encourages a climate
of fundamentalism.
In the past months, the fundamentalist
government of Egypt has made mass
arrests of anti-war activists and queer
people. Egypt has long been criticized for
its human rights abuses against its lgbtq
citizens, and is currently notorious for the
arrest of 52 gay men charged with
“debauchery.”Two days before
international anti-war demonstrations in
February 2003, Egyptian State Security
Police also arrested 11 antiwar activists in
Cairo.The Bush Administration considers
Egypt a major ally in the Middle East. Not
only has the U.S. not spoken out against
the Egyptian government’s human rights
abuses, in 2002 it pledged $10.3 billion in
aid along with the European Union and
World Bank.The heightening tension in the Middle East and U.S.
military action in Iraq have allowed the recent arrests of gay men
and antiwar activists in Egypt to go unchallenged.
Five months after the 9.11 attacks, as the U.S. was engaged in
bombing Afghanistan, Pat Robertson, a religious fundamentalist
leader notorious for his anti-gay agenda, attacked Islam and
Muslims.“[Islam] is not a peaceful religion that wants to coexist,”
Robertson said.“They want to coexist until they can control,
dominate and then if need be destroy.” It seems that many
fundamentalists make no distinctions in their hatred of peace
activists, queers, or people of different ethnicities and religions.

9.Militarism perpetuates rigid gender norms.
At its most basic level, militarism is rooted in traditional,
heterosexist ideas of gender that define masculinity as physically
powerful and aggressive and feminity as meek and passive.This was
made clear in debates about whether or not to allow women to fight
in front-line combat during the first Gulf War.These gender norms
have historically been used to marginalize and criminalize queer
people who often challenge the legitimacy of these norms.
Increasing our dependence on the military and making war a
priority strengthens the heterosexist, patriarchal culture that
promotes war, intensifying the stigmatization of those who defy that
culture.

10.War kills queer people.
There is no question that war kills innocent people. It is estimated
that 1 in every 10 people is queer.This means that out of the 1.5
million Iraqis who have died in the last decade because of sanctions
and bombings, 150,000 where queer. 15,000 queer people where
sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust, the global
North’s most famous example of genocide and militarism. It is
estimated that over 300 lgbtq people died in the attacks on the
World Trade Center and Pentagon. From queer servicemen to
civilians, to political prisoners and prisoners of war, war threatens
everyone’s life.
Ryn Gluckman is a queer activist and writer. S/he is the Program
Coordinator for the Population and Development Program at
Hampshire College and sits on the Board of Directors for Children
of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere

Uh? Duh? Hello?

Since when did the military become the nations “welfare youth camp”?

There have always been risks in the military and anyone who signs up knows this BEFORE they enlist. Again I ask, since when did you Liberals make the military the nations “post leave the nest babysitter”?

Welcome to the new world people. Us Conservatives want OUR MONEYS WORTH out of these “troops” we have deployed in Iraq.

No more sitting around with a thumb up their ass getting paid and getting fat while us Conservatives have to foot the bill. These boys need to get their asses in gear. No more patty cake here. Lets see some results for a change.

We are doing the American taxpayers a great service by DEMANDING the American troops STEP UP TP THE PLATE and give us a better performance.

Hopefully Duckworth is a fighter and not a silly “Liberal Progressive Useless Eater” getting fat stateside.

America is in Iraq for one reason alone, “OIL CONTRACTS/compac’s (?). Europe and Iraq had made such deals prior to the war, Cheney, Bush, and the American Oil interests did not like being left out, it is as simple as that.

The Afghanistan War, About a GAS pipeline?

Could not have been about Usama bin Laden, because we let him go and are not looking for him. Bush quote “I don’t know where he is, I don’t spend that much time on him.

We have given Usama what he has wanted, BUSH closed the Saudi military base after the 911 attack, Bush Flew the Bin Laden family out of the United States, on that very day, after the buildings were hit.

The family (Usamas father) was in the US to attend a meeting of the Carlyle Group (largest private investment group in the world) it is possible to find all of the maneuvers Bush and the administration made, because of Usama, and his demands prior too, and after the attack, you need to do the research.

Afghanistan, In 1998, Dick Cheney, now US vice-president but then chief executive of a major oil services company,(Halliburton) remarked: “I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.” But the oil and gas there is worthless until it is moved. The only route which makes both political and economic sense is through Afghanistan. [Guardian]

This is a coincidence, I believe, but for the oil/gas industry it the best possible coincidence.

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The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAP or TAPI) is a proposed natural gas pipeline being developed by the Asian Development Bank. The pipeline will transport Caspian Sea natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India.

Started in March 1995 when inaugural memorandum of understanding between the governments of Turkmenistan and Pakistan for a pipeline project was signed. In August 1996, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline, Ltd. (CentGas) consortium for construction of pipeline, led by Unocal was formed. On 27 October 1997 CentGas incorporated in formal signing ceremonies in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan by several international oil companies along with the Government of Turkmenistan. In January 1998 the Taliban, selecting CentGas over a Brazilian competitor, signed an agreement that allowed the proposed project to proceed. In June 1998, Russian Gazprom relinquishes its 10% stake in project. Unocal withdrawn from the consortium on 8 December 1998.
On 27 December 2002 by the leaders of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan and in 2005 Asian Development Bank submitted the final version of feasibility study designed by British company Penspen. Signing the agreement was made possible by the invasion of Afghanistan by United States military forces a year prior, which overthrew the Taliban government controlling most of Afghanistan. Building the pipeline was cited by some critics of the Bush administration as a motivation for the invasion. Some people have even said that if you take a map of U.S. military bases in Afghanistan and a map of the proposed pipeline they are very close together, suggesting that bases are positioned to protect natural gas interests. However, since then the project has essentially stalled; construction of the Turkmen part was supposed to start in 2006, but the overall feasibility is questionable since the southern part of the Afghan section runs through territory which continues to be under de facto Taliban control.

Bush just ordered 3200 troops to Afghanistan, There is no questioning, fighting in Afghanistan has intensified, I am not stating that we are attacking the Taliban because of the stall in the construction of the pipeline.

Please disregard everything I have written here, also the information taken from other sources. Please, do your own fact-finding research. I happen to use “Google search” Enter Afghanistan: gas pipeline construction, also enter Bush quote: “Money trumps peace, sometimes” please do the research yourself. The so-called left wing media is not going to bring this to our attention, if they did/do it is only because Randi Rhodes of “AirAmericaRadio.com” spoke about it first.

She is always first when it comes to the most important information Fox News and the Bush administration do-not want you to know! They want you to focus on the tragic life of Anna Nichole Smith, and not on what is important to us, and the world.

Seriously people. Get your head out of your arses. We voted yes because the we were presented with facts that were presented as true. THEY AREN’T TRUE.

Got that? K, thanks, bye

Now, just do it.

CUT THE FREAKIN’ FUNDS.

At least 17 of the republicans in the Congress had enough courage to oppose Bush’s illegal war for oil and Halliburton profiteering. The moron-in-chief, Chimpy The DECIDER, (Wastey Pants) now plans to start a war with Iran. IT IS TIME FOR THE CONGRESS AND THE SENATE TO PUT AN END BUSH’s WAR IN IRAQ AND HIS FUTURE WAR PLANS WITH IRAN!!

I find it really hard to believe such polls….Just go out and talk to people and ask them if Hillary is their choice for president and you will see that these polls are not accurate by no means.