White House Advisers Searching for Ways to ‘Bypass Congress Altogether’
White House Advisers Searching for Ways to ‘Bypass Congress Altogether’
President Bush is “struggling for relevancy in the same way many other second-term presidents have,” Newsweek observed recently. “But Bush’s burden seems much harder than other presidents in recent memory.” 71 percent of Americans see Bush as a “lame duck” president, and 58 percent “wish the Bush presidency were simply over.”
U.S. News reports that conservatives have seen the writing on the wall and are now advising Bush to “jump start” his final two years by pushing through as much as he can by executive fiat:
With President Bush unable to get much traction so far in moving his agenda through Congress or in improving his job-approval ratings with the public, White House advisers are casting about for ways to jump-start his final two years, including issuing executive orders to get things done without having to ask for support from the Democratic-controlled Congress.
“He should get a list of the executive orders for the last 200 years, as a guide, and choose what he wants to do,” says an informal Bush adviser. One proposal that fiscal conservatives are pushing is to halve all capital-gains taxes, as a way to encourage investment and job creation.
Some conservatives argue that even if Bush somehow regains his political footing, whatever he might work out with the Democratic majority in Congress wouldn’t be very good legislation, so he should go the executive-order route and bypass Congress altogether.
Bush has already begun to implement the strategy. Last month, Bush signed Executive Order 12866 to put political appointees — rather than experienced civil servants — in charge of regulatory agencies. The order would “give the White House much greater control over the rules and policy statements that the government develops to protect public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy.” Columbia Law School professor Peter L. Strauss said the move “achieves a major increase in White House control over domestic government. … Having lost control of Congress, the president is doing what he can to increase his control of the executive branch.”
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Do away with Congress?
Okay.
February 17th, 2007 at 3:23 pmDo away with Congress?
Okay.
February 17th, 2007 at 3:24 pmSorry to say “I told ya so†but…
I TOLD YOU SO SUCKERS!!!
Bwahahahaha
Who`s yer daddy now bitches?
Heel boy, heel.
bwaahhahaha
February 17th, 2007 at 3:26 pmBy-passing Congress is a fast ticket to impeachment.
The conservatives at this point don’t care if Bush is impeached, as long as their agenda is pushed forward.
February 17th, 2007 at 3:27 pmDo away with Congress?
Okay.
Comment by Elmer Fudd USMC
Republicans too, Sgt. Stryker?
Isn’t that mighty scorched Earth, for a battle between ideologies?
Or do you prefer dictatorship? Not really a military man, are you?
February 17th, 2007 at 3:30 pmJust as unConstitutional as all his other policies. Executive orders are supposed to expire after 3 months, according to the Constitution. Bush uses them like executive decrees from a dictator.
February 17th, 2007 at 3:30 pmBush needs to be stopped. NOW. I was begining to think impeachment was not the right thing to do (as we should be focusing on showing America that progressives/liberals/dems have real positive plans).
But, with this new crap from Bush.. he NEEDS to be impeached. Now.
February 17th, 2007 at 3:30 pmSgt Stryker USMC likes the idea of living in a dictatorship – and going against everything the Marine Corps stands for. Be all that you can be — a twit.
February 17th, 2007 at 3:32 pmIsn’t this one of the manuevers that Hitler took to marginalize the elected officials of Germany?
Hey Sgt. Stryker are you going to turn your guns on your own citizens too?
-GSD
February 17th, 2007 at 3:33 pmStryker,
February 17th, 2007 at 3:38 pmHow about some background on your days in the corps? Oris that asking too much for a 42 year-old gay,overweight momma’s-boy, blogging from the Public Libray?
I wonder what they’ll call their new Fascist state without a Congress?
Didn’t this President take an oath to protect the Constitution or was that a copy of “My Pet Goat” too.
February 17th, 2007 at 3:44 pmHeadline: Unitary Executive Causes More Damage to Country
February 17th, 2007 at 3:50 pmWhere’s Sgt Stryker and his/her back-door, butt-buddy, Elmer Fudd ? What’s wrong Stryker, finding the truth a little uneasy, to handle?
February 17th, 2007 at 3:53 pmBut, with this new crap from Bush.. he NEEDS to be impeached. Now.
Comment by Anonymous By Choice — February 17, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
IMPEACH AG THE AG!!!
IMPEACH CHENEY!!
IMPEACH BOTCH!!
In that order!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 17th, 2007 at 4:04 pmWhat’s wrong Stryker, finding the truth a little uneasy, to handle?
Comment by Cpl Frank USMC Retired(66-69)
The truth to trolls is like shining a light on a cockroach, it will scurry back into the darkness to come back out when it thinks it is safe again.
February 17th, 2007 at 4:15 pm“Sieg Heils all around…” for the Republic Party of Treason and Coverups of Treason. 11/00: fascist theft of the Presidential Election in Florida. 12/00: five Supreme idiots stopped our democracy by stopping the vote counting in Florida, because it might tarnish the image of one very sore loser, one second-place finisher, Herr Boosh…
Same crap on 9-11: high treason by Cheney and Rumsfeld.
And the beat still goes on to this day…
February 17th, 2007 at 4:31 pmSadly, Bush and his blind supporters wouldn’t consider this to be satire:
February 17th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Congress is already irrelevant. They’ve surrendered the power of the purse to the Executive. At this point the only thing the Congressional Dems can do is impeach, and even that will be scuttled by the GOP, or worse, Bush’s unitary executive will bring forth a legal argument that says impeachment doesn’t matter.
And the Supremes will back George up.
We’re one terror attack away from permanent martial law.
February 17th, 2007 at 4:37 pmI’m not sure what happened to my link. Go to the onion’s website look around for the one called “bush cuts off diplomatic relations with congress”
February 17th, 2007 at 4:39 pmSgt Stryker USMC, another day another troll.
February 17th, 2007 at 4:45 pmHow thoughtful of them to lay such solid groundwork for the next Democratic President to do anything he or she wants.
February 17th, 2007 at 4:50 pmjeezus, john… that’s almost too weird…
Bush Cuts Off Diplomatic Relations With Congress
February 14, 2007 | Issue 43•07
WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush announced Monday that his administration will permanently sever ties with the democratically controlled United States Congress, ending a nearly 220-year-old alliance between the two governmental branches.
“Our administration no longer recognizes the authority of this rogue body,” said Bush in a televised Oval Office address. “Clearly, these combative men and women have a political agenda in direct opposition to our own. They have no concern for my national interests, and have left me no choice.”
February 17th, 2007 at 4:51 pm[...]
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bush_cuts_off_diplomatic_relations
.
…prince harry is off to the “front lines”…
February 17th, 2007 at 4:54 pmIt’s what they’ve been doing for year, just now it’s official.
February 17th, 2007 at 5:07 pmComment by katy #23
I have no idea if this is an authentic/reputable site or report…
…but if it is…
…this is good news…
…it means that the majority can declare war on the criminal Bushite junta…
…and its minions…
…Patriot Act their TREASONOUS as*es…
…the right wing al Crackkkers need to find out that…
…”It ain’t no fun
when th’ rabbit got th’ gun”….
February 17th, 2007 at 5:09 pmThis is just another example of how Bush thinks he is intellectually and morally superior to congress (including the republicans, he only trusts them when they do as they’re told), you and me so he doesn’t feel bound by our laws since we lack his clear vision of the way things really are.
It’s the reason he broke the FISA law. It had nothing to go with saving us from the terrorists. It was all about him letting Congress know he can break their laws and they should be too afraid to do anything about it.
February 17th, 2007 at 5:11 pm…prince harry is off to the “front linesâ€â€¦
Comment by katy — February 17, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
He’s really cute too, right?
February 17th, 2007 at 5:15 pmbig papa -
the onion is very much an authentic and reputable site -
for SATIRE…
sorry to bust your bubble…
the irony of the onion posting that story and then THIS story…
February 17th, 2007 at 5:17 pmalmost scary…
oops… know you know…
i’m michael (not really)… another thread…
dixie – i think harry is cute… he’s the red head… wills is the hunk…
February 17th, 2007 at 5:20 pmas much a hunk as his mom was a dish!
damn brain is not connecting to fingers …
NOW you know…
February 17th, 2007 at 5:21 pmKeep pushing Neo-Cons – there will be blood in the streets of America.
Real Americans will not tolerate Tyranny. This is the land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Don’t ever forget that.
February 17th, 2007 at 5:23 pmCuriouser and curiouser.
February 17th, 2007 at 5:29 pm#32- Smack
February 17th, 2007 at 5:30 pmDig it!
the irony of the onion posting that story and then THIS story…
almost scary…
Comment by michael (not really)
Bush imitating comedy, but thats not funny at all, it IS scary. Has been for the last 6 years. A nightmare that never stops.
February 17th, 2007 at 5:53 pmBush imitating comedy, but thats not funny at all
Comment by Wayne #35
Yeah Wayne,
I’m STILL seething from that White House Roast…
…the film with Bushiva pretending to look under the rugs and joking…
…”No weapons of mass destruction here”…
…that episode was probably the defining moment in my awakening to the fact that…
…the MSM was in cahoots w/the criminal Bushite junta…
…after DESTROYING Howard Dean’s candidacy by endlessly looping that so-called “Dean Scream”…
…I was floored when they all but covered up the Bushiva wmd “joke”…
February 17th, 2007 at 6:01 pmRemember Bush’s comment about it being “a lot easier if this were a dictatorship, as long as I am the dictator”? He is doing doing all he can to run the country as though he were a dictator, putting his minions in key places, not to mention judges who will rule his way.
February 17th, 2007 at 6:04 pmThe easiest way for this White House to bypass Congress is to leave. Today.
February 17th, 2007 at 6:22 pmS-Express
February 17th, 2007 at 6:25 pmThese are interesting times indeed. The show is going to get a lot better and soon. Hold on to your horses.
February 17th, 2007 at 6:42 pmIf Bush does this, then it is grounds for his immediate impeachment. Presidents are not supposed to pass their own laws, nor mandates.
February 17th, 2007 at 6:46 pmThe whole lot of them needs to be in prison. We need to make it happen.
February 17th, 2007 at 6:57 pmIt’s been pretty well confirmed that Congress is irrelevant
February 17th, 2007 at 7:01 pmComment by Dick Cheney #43
Now hold on there L’il Dick…
…Lynn’s only tuning up…
February 17th, 2007 at 7:13 pmSubstandard, Think.
Bushco has been pursuing the end from Day One.
Why do you buy the U.S. News LIE that this is just now on the table?
February 17th, 2007 at 7:17 pmThis is a bona fide “coup” of the american democracy. The Neocons have been dreaming this up and have plotted it, piece by piece. Connect the dots and anyone can see how they’ve so handily marched forward with their destruction of this democracy. The only thing they needed from the people was “trust” and we gave it to them without question. Once they abused our trust, it was over. Bush has been running things like a dictatorship for 6 years now so what’s the big news here? We handed over our rights and liberties to a sociopath who is hell bent on conforming this country to “his” standards and morals. (Is this any different than what Hitler did? Didn’t Hitler have the people living in fear? Where were the voices of the people when Hitler marched on and left a genocidal swath? Like us, they initially trusted that he knew what he was doing and when they realized that they were duped by a con man, it was too late. This is precisely what’s occurring in this country right now.
The Congress needs to take action pronto in order to stop this dictatorship from making it’s final coup – the overstepping and overreaching it lusts for by sidestepping the Congress altogether…..sure, he’s been doing it for some time but this makes it “official” now.
Will the people merely sit back and watch the self-destruction of our democracy or will they choose to take action? It’s an individual choice and, if our voices are to be heard, then each one of us needs to begin pressing our representatives toward impeachment now. Impeachment is the only remedy to stop the Bushite regime from pressing forward and finalizing their fascist plans.
February 17th, 2007 at 7:27 pmI don’t get it.
I was under the impression that he was bypassing Congress anyway, with all of the countless “signing statements” that he’s he’s used over the last several years.
February 17th, 2007 at 7:31 pmImpeachment is the only remedy to stop the Bushite regime from pressing forward and finalizing their fascist plans.
Comment by veritas #46
We all witnessed the impediment to impeachment today…
…4 votes shy of a 60 vote super-majority means…
…no successful impeachment…
…only another symbolic one (like Clinton’s was)…
…the 30% dead-enders seem to have us by the short hairs…
…the remedy is far more complicated…
February 17th, 2007 at 7:36 pmThese are interesting times indeed. The show is going to get a lot better and soon. Hold on to your horses.
Comment by zeigel — February 17, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
if only i knew which “side” you were on, i’d have some notion of what to expect… “interesting times” seems an understatement…
February 17th, 2007 at 7:36 pmJPV, signing statements are the bonehead-in-chief’s way of exempting himself from the law. Executive orders are his way of creating or changing the law without congressional approval.
February 17th, 2007 at 7:39 pm…the 30% dead-enders seem to have us by the short hairs…
…the remedy is far more complicated…
Comment by big papa
With this Senate, it will take Bush getting caught with a dead blonde girl or a live boy.
February 17th, 2007 at 7:52 pmWith this Senate, it will take Bush getting caught with a dead blonde girl or a live boy.
Comment by Wayne
I can hear the Repukes now — He just found that dead girl! He fell off his bike, and there she was in the ditch, HE JUST FOUND HER!!
February 17th, 2007 at 7:56 pmBush wants to rule like Chavez of Venezuela, but Pelosi will never allow it because she’ll cut all funds for the White House if necessary.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:00 pmSo, what else is new?
February 17th, 2007 at 8:20 pmI can hear the Repukes now — He just found that dead girl! He fell off his bike, and there she was in the ditch, HE JUST FOUND HER!!
Comment by Zooey
And “You have to believe he is telling the truth, ( in a backwoods southern drawl ) ‘Cause He’s a Christ-yaaaaan!!”
hehe
February 17th, 2007 at 8:20 pmBush would never be found with a dead girl or a live boy naked, but he could be caught with a male escort-hooker like Jeff Gannon, if the damn press would have done their job he would already have been caught giving a BJ to “Bulldog” Gannon. Jeff is a TOP only, so that would mean Bush gives him hummers and not the other way around.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:24 pmThat’s funny. WE THE PEOPLE are looking for ways to bypass the president, because he keeps ignoring us and violates the Constitution.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:31 pmAre you saying Bush is a “power bottom?â€
Comment by Spudge_Boy
I’ve heard he can clear a room with his gas. :P
February 17th, 2007 at 8:35 pmSpudge > Bush was known at Yale as “Lips.” Supposedly he loved to give straight guys BJs. Bush is a fem BOTTOM boy. His macho persona is fake.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:35 pmSpudge > Bush was known at Yale as “Lips.†Supposedly he loved to give straight guys BJs. Bush is a fem BOTTOM boy. His macho persona is fake.
Comment by Jay Randal
“Well, you got a pretty face. You got a pretty face. You’re a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott [Press Secretary Scott McClellan] anyway.â€
~ George W. Bush to Scott Reid Prime Minister of Canada Martin’s assistant, reported in the Toronto Globe
There is alot more slips like that, hehe.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:43 pmYep Spudge > Laura wears the boots in their marriage. She is more masculine than him > lol.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:46 pmWhat macho persona?
Comment by Spudge_Boy
Good question, Spudge.
Off-kilter nasty schoolyard bully frog exploder, I could get behind, but macho? Nope.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:47 pmGay Bushisms
February 17th, 2007 at 8:47 pmhmm last post never showed.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:52 pmTry again, more bushisms of the “power bottom” variety.
That’s some link, Wayne. I’m gonna stop using the word “fabulous.”
February 17th, 2007 at 8:59 pmSpeaking of gay republicans, here’s Rove describing the first time he laid eyes on ‘lips’…..
” I can literally remember what he was wearing: an Air National Guard flight jacket, cowboy boots, bulletins, complete with the-in Texas you see it a lot-one of the back pockets will have a circle worn in the pocket from where you carry your tin of snuff, your tin of tobacco. He was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have.”
February 17th, 2007 at 8:59 pmIt’s there Wayne.
Comment by Spudge_Boy
oops thought the filter caught it =)
February 17th, 2007 at 9:01 pmHe was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have.â€
Comment by Quadrajet
Love at first sight….
Ew.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:02 pmSpudge > ding ding ding you got it. Bush is a closeted hypocrite Gay guy. That is why he calls Rove his “Turd Blossom” and Jeff Gannon his “Bulldog.” Also why Tony Snow says he loves to be alone with the president in the Oval Office. Snow must get hummers. I wish to hell the press would notice.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:03 pm#73 – Spudge,
I love the tone of that article. Bush comes off as this tiny intractable piss-ant. Heh.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:06 pmLove at first sight….
Ew.
Comment by Zooey — February 17, 2007 @ 9:02 pm
Ew indeed Zooey. All that is missing from that quote is ‘god he was so hot!’ no?
February 17th, 2007 at 9:09 pmI have an idea: CNN should wire Anderson Cooper and have him meet Bush privately for a interview. When Bush hits on him > ding > Bush is outed.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:10 pmSpudge – It doesn’t really take Sigmund Freud to clock Karl does it?
February 17th, 2007 at 9:13 pmEw indeed Zooey. All that is missing from that quote is ‘god he was so hot!’ no?
Comment by Quadrajet
If I thought even half of the things in that paragraph about a guy…..he’d be mine by sundown. Just sayin’
Rove has it baaaaad….
February 17th, 2007 at 9:14 pmWhat happens if the Iraqis find out that Prince Harry is in Iraq? What happens if they kill or maim him? British monarchy are not very bright.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:19 pmBush twins will never go to Iraq. If George told them to go, then they would beat him up. Bush is scared of them, so he sends them away to South America.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:22 pmJay,
Harry is the “spare” so maybe he’s up for grabs.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:24 pmHe sure is a cutey with that red hair and those ears. :-D
i just heard on air america news that the reports about harry going to iraq are not true…
also, i just remembered the facebook thing… went there to join up…
where is everyone? … no posts since 11th…
fizzled out already?
February 17th, 2007 at 9:32 pmkaty!
facebook has not fizzled. Not many posts on the front page, but we communicate with each other behind the scenes. Join up! I think once we get a few more people joined up, we can start putting more posts on the frontpage.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:35 pmI say we the people should simply march on the white house and remove the occupants, take them to Cape Kennedy and launch bush/cheney and the rest of the self=appointed royalty into outer space never to be seen or heard from again….Then round up the “best and the brightest” of the radical reichwingnuts, straussianfascists, neocons and christofascists and similarly exile them by dispatching them into the stratosphere where they can all go meet their maker…. Any questions?
February 17th, 2007 at 9:35 pmTake no prisoners.
bushchaneymakemepuke –
Works for me.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:41 pmbushchaneymakemepuke,
You make yourself puke bozo.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:42 pmHere is one for your topic:
February 17th, 2007 at 9:47 pmhttp://bushssecretlifein84.tripod.com/
Not many posts on the front page, but we communicate with each other behind the scenes.
Comment by Zooey — February 17, 2007 @ 9:35 pm
aaack! i hate to sound so dumb, but i don’t know what you mean…
i’m studying this thing, but i get frustrated so easily…
i have joined… just not sure what to do now… heh :-}
my daughter told me i couldn’t figure it out because it’s just for college kids… eh???
February 17th, 2007 at 10:00 pmand Smirky just keeps on smirking…
February 17th, 2007 at 10:04 pmkaty,
Are you a member of the Thinkprogress.org group? Send me an email telling me your name on facebook, and I’ll invite you to be on my friends list.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:06 pmAhh, FaceBook.
A hackers paradise.
Now I will know all that is P*E*R*S*O*N*A*L about my friends here at TP
I think I have written a few programs to reveal all on that site….ah, yes, here they are.
nyuk
nyuk
nyuk
Don`t go anywhere I wouldn`t. I will own your computer as I already do most TP posters.
Free access to all computers that you posters operate is my lifes goal.
Happy surfing!
Bwahahaha!!
rachel ” the saint ” santo patricia halbert Got Elvis?
February 17th, 2007 at 10:07 pmAhh, FaceBook.
A hackers paradise.
Now I will know all that is P*E*R*S*O*N*A*L about my friends here at TP
I think I have written a few programs to reveal all on that site….ah, yes, here they are.
nyuk
nyuk
nyuk
Don`t go anywhere I wouldn`t. I will own your computer as I already do most TP posters.
Free access to all computers that you posters operate is my lifes goal.
Happy surfing!
Bwahahaha!!
rachel ” the saint ” santo patricia halbert Got Elvis?
February 17th, 2007 at 10:08 pmAhh, FaceBook.
A hackers paradise.
Now I will know all that is P*E*R*S*O*N*A*L about my friends here at TP
I think I have written a few programs to reveal all on that site….ah, yes, here they are.
nyuk
nyuk
nyuk
Don`t go anywhere I wouldn`t. I will own your computer as I already do most TP posters.
Free access to all computers that you posters operate is my lifes goal.
Happy surfing!
Bwahahaha!!
rachel ” the saint ” santo patricia halbert Got Elvis?
February 17th, 2007 at 10:09 pmAhh, FaceBook.
A hackers paradise.
Now I will know all that is P*E*R*S*O*N*A*L about my friends here at TP
I think I have written a few programs to reveal all on that site….ah, yes, here they are.
nyuk
nyuk
nyuk
Don`t go anywhere I wouldn`t. I will own your computer as I already do most TP posters.
Free access to all computers that you posters operate is my lifes goal.
Happy surfing!
Bwahahaha!!
rachel ” the saint ” santo patricia halbert Got Elvis?
February 17th, 2007 at 10:10 pmGood evening, rachel. Are we doing this again tonight?
February 17th, 2007 at 10:17 pmrachel, please tend to what I appreciate you for doing…finding other important articles to post here. You can help. If you so choose.
Peace and Blessings.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:27 pmHI-JACK, HI-JACK, ALL DAY LONG, just like YOU, eh?
You’re no more a HACKER than Shrub is a president!
Faker, fakers, fake!
COME AND GET ME, BEOTCH!
As if, you trolling, lying sack of dung!
Eat me?
February 17th, 2007 at 10:27 pmIs rachael a she or he or transvestite? Just asking because I am confused about its gender.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:28 pmOn topic.
there were warnings about this tactic posted way back in October.
And, with enough Republicans in the Senate willing to filibuster even a debate on a non-binding resolution, Bush has the Powers of a King.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:29 pmSpudge, and I’ll throw in another $50 if she can tell us how many crimes she’s alleged to have committed in posts 97 – 100….
February 17th, 2007 at 10:31 pmJay,
I think rachel is female, with many facets to her personality.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:31 pmI have never understood why trolls come on here, and cause trouble, then abuse is heaped on them too. They must be sadistic, because who would want to be a GOP troll?!
February 17th, 2007 at 10:45 pmdoes rachel have a life? the fact that i have no life must make that question ironic.
anyway, with reservations aside, I would like to ask those who are interested to head over to a blog i’m working on as a way to vent about politics (and other topics), and i would at the very least, like to share and get comments on my first post, which is rather long to post here, not to mention slightly OT. Also, it has its stylistic inspiration from 19th century speeches and letters. It isn’t perfect, but alas, I am handicapped by my humanity.
http://the-speculator.blogspot.com/
Oh, and in the spirit of staying at least somewhat on topic:
The republicans have been complaining about how Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has been heading towards a dictatorship. It is ironic that he and Bush are using similar tactics to passing what they want to do … both wish to use the executive order to pass laws. The difference is Bush is going against the majority while Chavez has an actual legal mandate (though one could argue that his reelection is due to fraud, though i do not have the sources to prove or disprove in the space here.)
February 17th, 2007 at 10:46 pmRay Jandal,
I am who I am. I hope you like.
Briseadh na Faire–Okay I will behave
Zooey– No, I feel better now.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:49 pmThank you, rachel. Take care.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:52 pmThey must be sadistic, because who would want to be a GOP troll?!
Comment by Jay Randal — February 17, 2007 @ 10:45 pm
You must mean sadomasochistic. I agree it’s weird behavior.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:52 pmInvestigate, Indict, Impeach, Convict this sorry son of a bitch. The Fascists are ruining our constitution. Dubya Bush and the trailer trash 30%ers are worse than terrorists.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:52 pmLast I heard there were three equal branches of government not just the executive. Bush wants to take down the constitution, and the congress. Unless kung George is impeached soon, he will take down the entire country.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:58 pm#117 You have such a pre-2000 mindset!! Three equal branches is a “quaint” idea.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:00 pmI can’t wait to see how all of this “executive power” comes back to bite the republicans in the ass! When democrats run the White House, the Senate, and the House–look out!
BTW, if you’re an evangelical and you feel the need to run for president-do the world a favor and run for pastor of your church instead.
No more presidents with hick accents. No more presidents that you want to drink a beer with. Let’s get someone in the White House who ISN’T a wannabe cowboy. NO MORE HICKS!
February 17th, 2007 at 11:03 pmAnna Nicole is taking up more airtime these days that is the war in Iraq.
MSM is focusing almost in it’s vast resources on this southern blonde bimbo.
Now, do you FINALLY see wahy BUSH IS IN OFFICE?
The USA has lost it’s MORAL COMPASS entirely.
Not blaming one party or another, the fact is, we have.
It needs fixed and fixed very soon.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:04 pm#110 – good post at blogspot Ashen
February 17th, 2007 at 11:05 pmThe USA has lost it’s MORAL COMPASS entirely.
Not blaming one party or another, the fact is, we have.
It needs fixed and fixed very soon.
Comment by rachel
Exactly, rachel! But what are you going to do?
February 17th, 2007 at 11:08 pm#116 Spudge Boy
I’m glad I amused someone with that comment :)
#119 Laura
First, to be politically correct, you want no more presidents who pretend to be the every man. Bush is as much of the every man as Kerry, he just had the ability to lie about his life in order to get the votes he needed. So, what you really want is a president who is real and truthful.
However, I must confess that I would like, and there is room to debate, that the best president/leader would be a philosopher, i.e. well learned and thoughtful. Would it be undemocratic to require an academic prerequisite for applying for the position of President?
February 17th, 2007 at 11:10 pm#120 Rachel, I am sorry but I am suggesting you change your name. Rachel is a notorious lying troll. Just a suggestion.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:13 pmJPark,
You’re talking to The Rachel. Just sayin’
:)
February 17th, 2007 at 11:17 pm#123 My standards are low. I would like it if our president followed the law at this point.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:19 pmThanks Zooey. You never know. It is rare that it actually uses its name, these days.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:20 pm#121 Quadrajet
Thank you. I had a moment of inspiration for that post, guess it is a mix of the political situation and all the research I’m doing. Doesn’t happen often, but I’m extremely proud of that piece. Both for the message and, less important for most but essential for the history scholar/nerd, the historical references within it. Amazingly, I think at least, it all flows nicely … like a good poem, it all came together. A few typos, but I expect that with my train of thought writing.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:23 pmMy standards are low. I would like it if our president followed the law at this point.
Comment by JPark
The best quote of the day, imho.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:24 pmJPark,
You start to recognize the pattern after a while.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:25 pmI must confess that I would like, and there is room to debate, that the best president/leader would be a philosopher, i.e. well learned and thoughtful. Comment by AshenShard
What??? Havent you noticed how well free-trade economists, lawyers and actors have performed as presidents? /sarc
Maybe we need engineers: Jimmy Carter, Yeltsin or Arafat. Ok, I was kidding.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:25 pmIMHO, we should reorganize our political system. Change to parliamentary government. This solves the dangerous problem of the executive branch grabbing for dictatorial powers and allows for a multi-party system … to use a cliche … it would kill two birds with one stone.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:26 pmsorry, but I’m not running.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:30 pm#126 JPark
No! Don’t let your standards sink so low, you, and all of us, should expect the very best!
If anything the President should be the embodiment of what Confucianism calls the ‘best man’. This is a person who embodies everything that is good about humankind, a Jesus-like figure if you will, who leads by example. He understands that he leads by example and does what is upstanding and right, which means he does his best to rule in a way that at the very least will be benign and the very best will benefit their country in a way that will allow it to transcend its previous existence.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:31 pmAshenShard,
Since Briseadh na Faire isn’t running, I wish you good luck finding that person.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:36 pm#133 Comment by Briseadh na Faire — February 17, 2007 @ 11:30 pm
This is one of the few times I use this shorthand, but I think your post deserves it: rotflmfao
Would you consider being my running mate? once I’m of age to run for the post in …. 2020? (If my math and knowledge are correct … one has to be at least 35 to run, am i correct?)
And this is also assuming we are not either drowned or extra crispy by then.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:39 pm#134 A Jesus-like figure would be figuratively crucified in a presidential race. I will stick with the lesser of two evils.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:42 pmI think the picture above tells a lot.
Ruling class laughing and lower class dying.
Then these f*ckers ask why there are revolutions.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:42 pm#137 JPark
Depends on what part of the life of Jesus one interprets as important. In my reference you can cut out all the theology about the crucifixion and just look at how Jesus lived his life, accepting all individuals and helping those who were in need. Btw, I hope I don’t come over as preaching, because I do not consider myself Christian.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:46 pmThen these f*ckers ask why there are revolutions.
Comment by Juan C
They will never understand why the lower classes simply won’t eat their cake.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:47 pm#138 Marie Antoinettes…all of them.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:47 pm#138 Juan C
Unfortunately I do not see revolution as likely in our country … not because people are not angry and are not capable of rising up against tyranny, but because of the nuclear capability of our country. If there was such an uprising, if it became clear that it would be successful, what would stop the ruling elite from using the arsenal in order to deny the masses from succeeding, even if it meant the end of the country, if not the entire Earth?
February 17th, 2007 at 11:49 pm#139 Jesus would be painted as a liberal cut and runner that would raise your taxes. Doesn’t matter what part of his life you looked at. He would be a harder sell than Feingold.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:50 pm#143 JPark
Actually, I think you are almost correct, though slightly off. He would be painted as a middle eastern terrorist. I say that since most republicans would likely forget the Jewish and Christian populations there and just lump them all into the same category.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:55 pm#144 I forget that he would be of middle eastern descent. You may be right. Glenn Beck would certainly force him to swear fealty on his show.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:59 pmThey will never understand why the lower classes simply won’t eat their cake.
Comment by Zooey
Just finished watching a spanish movie about a group of fired workers that built ships. The company decided to fire 80 but they refused and went to strike, after that the company fired 200. It is an interesting story about unemployment in what should be a developed country. There are 5 minutes where the leading character (Javier Bardem) speaks about what really is this free trade system with such a simplicity that it is overwhelming. Terrific.
Yeah, working class struggles while very few eat caviar. There is not much difference from feudalism.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:00 amThe problem with the US government is that it attracts con-artist type people to seek political positions. Probably at least half of those in the Congress are pathological liars. They have been liars all their lives and now they are Representatives and Senators. Some of them were unethical lawyers, some were shady real estate brokers, some were lemon used car salesmen, some were Life Insurance peddlers, etc.
Untill voters realize that many politicians are charlatans, then the Congress will never have decent people serving in it. The biggest con-artist huckster in DC is President George W. Bush a born liar!
February 18th, 2007 at 12:01 amJesus would be painted as a liberal cut and runner that would raise your taxes. —- JPark
Yeah him saying things like “Do onto others as you would have them do onto you” is so bleeding heart liberal. Healing the sick, denying the doctors their profits. I mean how dare he?
And then there is him feeding the poor, and that talking peace on earth is just radical left wing talk for supportin’ the ter’rists.
America would never elect such a bleedin’ heart liberal to be president.
/snark off
February 18th, 2007 at 12:02 amYeah, working class struggles while very few eat caviar. There is not much difference from feudalism.
Comment by Juan C
Juan, would you agree that this inequality is going to get much worse, before it gets better? The poor in this country have very little voice, so I’m not surprised we don’t hear much from them. But as the working class moves further into the lower class, we may begin to rumblings from those unacustomed to being uncomfortable.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:06 amSee who Obama pledges his allegiance to.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:07 amhttp://kurtnimmo.com/?p=770
See who Obama pledges his allegiance to.
Weak strawman. Try again.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:11 amTake for example: Former Rep. Tom Delay of Texas. He was raised by abusive parents who owned a funeral home business. As a young adult Delay started his own pest contol company and was known to con people about termite infestations when there were none. Eventually he got involved in Texas politics and worked his way into getting elected to the House of Representatives. Once there he conned his way into the GOP House leadership. He got caught taking bribes and was forced to resign.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:12 am71 percent of Americans see Bush as a “lame duck†president, and 58 percent “wish the Bush presidency were simply over.â€
That’s gotta make a troll’s job difficult. It boggles the mind why anyone would still waste their energy trying to stick up for Bush.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:20 amJust finished watching a spanish movie about a group of fired workers that built ships. — Juan C
sounds like a good movie, what was the name? I am always looking for more good forein films =)
February 18th, 2007 at 12:22 amIt boggles the mind why anyone would still waste their energy trying to stick up for Bush.
Comment by chimpeach
It’s a solid indicator of how crazy the loons really are. =D
February 18th, 2007 at 12:24 am#153 chimpeach
Trolls just ignore polls, say they are not accurate because they were taken in highly liberal locales … naturally without substantiating their claims … I guess it all comes from the gut, which, sadly, we have yet to develop the technology to link to.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:28 amerr,: foreign films =P
Some of the stories are really amazing once you get past the hollywood formulas of slash and hack/car crash and explosions/ or old TV show remakes LOL
February 18th, 2007 at 12:34 amwould you agree that this inequality is going to get much worse, before it gets better?
Comment by Zooey
Sorry to sound so dogmatic, but Marx already stablished what it´s going to happen. Of course, in his times working conditions were extremely poor in developed countries, like the actual III world conditions (sweat shops). Things got somehow better for the working class, unions were stablished, 8 hour journals, incentives, etc. But then we are experiencing the most rabid form of capitalism: neoliberalism, which is profit above anything.
If a company needs to close 5 plants and move them to Taiwan, WTO and IMF says: That´s progress and all economists applaud. Those thousands of fired workers protest but our fantastic media calls them “anti-progress” or communists, etc. Economists say: These companies will lift the living conditions in Taiwan. This can happen, but reality tells us that those countries still have the worse working conditions and companies dont care about giving health care to 12 y/o kids. Exxon has been working in Nigeria for years which results in: no environmental security, infrahuman living and working conditions (abortions without anesthesia, etc.)
So no. Companies dont care about lifting standards of life, they care about profits. If workers go to strike, they are repressed (read the bloody history of Coke in Columbia), humiliated by the media and finally forgotten. Furthermore, these same workers, middle class are almost obligued to buy stuff made by monopolies that just has fired them. So, it is a vice circle whose only purpose is to put the few money of millions into the pockets of hundreds.
I guess things can only change when the people take action. In Argentina, after the country was ripped off by Menem and foreign companies, the middle class found itself without money, there were not money in the banks, the country had broken. Now, middle class really didnt care about lower classes, they wanted their money, which talks a lot about the interests of this dumb middle class. Middle class went out, burned the Congress, fought the police, took the streets…and the ruling class shook. But ruling class is smart and middle class is lazy. Once, two or three things changed, middle class got some of its money and went back to the TV couch. Lower class is still struggling each day to have something to eat. IF middle class would wanted to take the country, they could have done it IMO. But we want others to govern us cuz we are simply to lazy. We are responsible for the world we have.
We should ban all companies that use slavery to produce their stuff. We should ban all companies that hurt the environment. We should ban all companies that destroy small business. We should ban all companies related to war. We should not allow that the right to make money is above the rights of humans.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:35 amI am always looking for more good forein films =)
Comment by Wayne
Los Lunes al Sol.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:37 amKind of: Mondays under the sun.
I guess it all comes from the gut, which, sadly, we have yet to develop the technology to link to.
Comment by AshenShard
In all seriousness, for the Retardicans, I am afraid, it would require wiring to their posterior region, rather than the gut.
=D
February 18th, 2007 at 12:37 amWayne. I also like foregin movies.
Korean film Oldboy comes to my mind, right now. I was disturbed for days.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:41 amWe should not allow that the right to make money is above the rights of humans.
Comment by Juan C
Well said, Juan. Thank you so much, I learn a lot from you. :)
February 18th, 2007 at 12:43 am#158 Juan C
I know this is a small suggestion, maybe even putting a only band aid on a gangrenous wound, but maybe, just maybe the simplest solution to all those problems would work. I think that establishing a worldwide minimum wage would solve the problem. The minimum wage would not require the change of currency, but would require, for example, that everyone be paid at least equal to American minimum wage, which in China would be about 40 yuan (rounded off estimate).
February 18th, 2007 at 12:44 amIMO this would unite the economies of the world, and nullify any advantage a corporation would gain from going overseas for the cheap labor.
Again, it may be something that is too simple, but sometimes it is the simple plan that is the best.
We should ban all companies that use slavery to produce their stuff. We should ban all companies that hurt the environment. We should ban all companies that destroy small business. We should ban all companies related to war. We should not allow that the right to make money is above the rights of humans.
Comment by Juan C
I agree. Corporations should not have rights over that of any single human being.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:45 amCorporations should not be considered a “person”. They especially should not be considered above the law.
Los Lunes al Sol.
Kind of: Mondays under the sun.
Oldboy
Comment by Juan C
Cool, that’s 2 to look for, thanks =)
February 18th, 2007 at 12:50 amOy. Goodnight, all. It’s been a nice evening. :-)
February 18th, 2007 at 12:51 am#164 Wayne
What is ironic is that corporations claim that they are a person through the 14th amendment, which was meant to prevent recently freed slaves from being denied their rights as citizens of the US. I don’t know the case, but a lawyer argued and won that this applied to corporations also. Therefore, unless I’m wrong or there are any other laws on the books that would complicate it, all that would have to be done is to get a few good lawyers and get the court to declare that the 14th amendment does not apply to corporations, which are in fact not individual persons ….
And just think, if persons running the corporation were all of a sudden liable, then i bet they would conduct their company ethically.
btw, i must mention (and i’m fairly certain my knowledge is correct on this) there is a law on the books that states that the first priority of a corporation and to generate profit for its investors.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:55 amThank you so much, I learn a lot from you. :)
Comment by Zooey
Oh, stop it!! :)
Remember, you promise me to tell me about sociology. I dont forget that one, lady.
Again, it may be something that is too simple, but sometimes it is the simple plan that is the best.
Comment by AshenShard
Probably. But do you think corporations would allow that? Heh. Thats the issue.
To tell you the truth I dont know too much about economics. But all economists talk about the virtue of free trade and privatizations, etc. No economist have explained to me how it is possible that privatizations in Uruguay, for example, has doubled that country´s external debt. The same examples hold for Latinamerica. All economists talk about macroeconomic variables, how good the country is now for foreign investments and that they create job sources and blah, blah, blah. Well, it is not happening.
There are 11 million mexicans working in the US cuz here they cant survive, and we have this economic system since 1982. So, what are the benefits? I mean, the benefits for all. None. The benefits are just for a few. Public industries (mexican oil company, PEMEX for example) is going into bankrupcy in a few years. The government is in charge of taking all the money from this company, so they can say: Oh, it is inefficient, we need fresh investments for energy from the outside, the unions are to be blamed, those high pensions, etc. It´s all a plan to bring foreign companies to Mexico and have them decide what the mexican people should pay for their products. Competitivity (?) does not lower prices. Methods of production do.
Now, perhaps, if mexican companies were as good as swedish companies, we would have that balance that you talk about, but we dont. All our brains and labor force are abandoning this country. There is no future here.
February 18th, 2007 at 1:01 amThe USA has lost it’s MORAL COMPASS entirely.
Not blaming one party or another, the fact is, we have.
It needs fixed and fixed very soon.
Comment by rachel
“It’s what empires do baby,,,yeh!
And King Krash is dribin da bus!”
“Wooooo!!!”
(fires shotgun thru window of brakeless Ford bus as reporters scurry)
KabbbLLaaaAmm-O!!
“Weeyyyahhhhh!!”
“I’m dah Deee-cedarer!!”
“Dah werld is flat an I’gonna pruve eet by dribin off’n dat edjje up aheed!! WooooOOOoo!!!”
“I dun’t care if eet rains or freebes!!”
February 18th, 2007 at 1:03 am“Long as I hab my plastekk Jeebus!!”
“WooooooOOoOoo!!”
They especially should not be considered above the law.
Comment by Wayne
btw, i must mention (and i’m fairly certain my knowledge is correct on this) there is a law on the books that states that the first priority of a corporation and to generate profit for its investors.
Comment by AshenShard
I saw that in The Corporation.
February 18th, 2007 at 1:05 amDas Manifest
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can’t reach.” -Strother Martin
Above any programming skill, security system or computer hardware knowledge (some of us don’t even know a shit about computers), we all share the same disgust about the lack of respect and the perpetual repression made among us, our peers and our race in general. A world afloat in lies and more lies, in public opinion manipulation, corruption, reality alleviators and so-called needs designed by a few marketing graduates and psychologists who learned pretty well how to use the remaining human innate skills in order to hook the people and use them as tools to perpetuate their absolute monarchy. This is how the hive protects itself from evolution. The queen doesn’t have to fight to stay king of the hill, workers fight each others, the same way we does, getting trained to see each other into one single dimension, to see each other in binary, a combination of 011010 and XX or XY ultimately creating the illusion of a human frame. That process is going on from such a long time that most of us actually trained themselves and succeeded to become that kind of pathetic array of binary coding… “Should I choose between the face lift or these silicone tips? Or let’s get both…” and you will be the idiot getting excited by her new binary array next week. No place left for feelings. In fact, you now have to pay to buy your feelings daily to fill up the empty spaces of your 9 to 5 nightmare. Feelings has become a business in itself and you can be sure an healthy-food psychologist faggot will end up cashing them into a brand new BMW convertible to show how many tormented souls he pretends he cured. A dumb blind confederation of suburban idiots congratulating themselves having the same blood type than Tom Cruise and a larger swimming pool than next door’s neighbor.
Everything has become easy enough to allow the dumbest otist to do whatever kind of activity they can actually pay for. Universities and college-level schools now promotes “learning disorders” with special bursaries while most of the true lunatics end up screwed in the administrative catch 22. This is what our “democracy” is about: leaving our faith in the hand of any two-legged brainless monkey. The word “democracy” itself became the worst buzzword of all. Why worrying you might wonder? “Life’s just too short anyway” you say, and if you think too much, you might end up missing your daily sitcom on your 27″ digital flat screen. Time factor has nothing to do and there is no justification for allowing senselessness. People are getting brain-dead to the point where they are actually paying to advertise the shit they are consuming at a depressing rate. Society has became a huge McDonald’s. Everybody has become similar under the neon lights that irradiates shafts of broken glass. The way the Industrialized North pulls the strings with that “globalisation” process is such that if a painter would mix his entire color palette into one big melting pot leading to a disgusting uniform brownish tone. And when something looks brown, smells like shit and tastes like shit, chances are good that this thing turns out to be shit. This is precisely what is happening from too much uniformity, this race for nationalism and the way we have to mass-market any kind of processed junk all around the planetary beehive.
People are getting crazy, everywhere it’s getting worse. Between a life based on the latest hollywood crappy scenario and their own personnal twisted minds corrupted by a childhood being driven by Kraft processed cheese and happy purple dinosaurs singing non-sences. The problem arises from far behind the fact that the regulations that outline our lives are sketched by a buch of individuals who lives in skycrapers and gather an overwelming wealth from exploiting the average. The real enemy is this average itself, the John Doe who allow these opportunists to screw us up until “we will be so poor and cowed that when They will come to take away our kids we won’t complain, but thank them” as stated by the Reverant Stang. You may think you are in a free country with free speech and free press… Get real, you are free to choose between NBC (owned by Microsoft and G.E. who also owns FOX Network), ABC (owned by Disney) or CBS (owned by Viacom who also owns MTV, Paramount, Famous Players, Blockbusters and name it). Useless to say that these few corps also owns thousands of radio stations, cable/local tv networks, movie/music distribution companies, magazines, major newspapers and so on… well, they own about anything you could possibly imagine. As a matter of fact, it is obvious that there is always somewhere a bigger fish. It has also been obvious that 1984 happened way back in ‘53. Media control is just another step towards mind control. The collective alienation reflects itself in every single aspect of our disfunctional society so that we each other become our own enemies. As stated by Albert Parsons, “formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master”.
You might say “ahh, that’s just another 21 years old left freak that took Marx too seriously” well, there was indeed a time I enjoyed myself going to the movies and looking at Rambo digging holes in dozens of Vietcong, but then you realized that these Vietnamese are now forced to shoot defoliant and herbicide that will end up in their irrigation system in the cotton crop they are forced to grow and ship overseas to be bleached somewhere where there is no regulation about the use of carcinogenic chlorine bleach. You realize that this bleached cotton crop is then sent to sweatshops in Pakistan where 1.5 million children from 10 to 14 years old catch contagious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis for being packed into insane conditions for transforming the cotton into fabric that is going to be sent to Bangladesh in a free trade zone factory where they pay a father who has to fed his 12 children because he doesn’t know shit about contraceptives 30 cents an hour of grunt work to sew the damn fabric and ship it to your beloved USA who decides to move the damn plant to Mexico where workers got cancers after spending half of their lives printing the Tommy logo on the goddamn piece of fabric that end up with a production cost of about one hundredth of its selling price that you are going to pay at the mall you are mindlessly shopping every Friday evening. You are not supposed to know that, but you just knew it and once you know something, you cannot unknow it.
What does that has to do with a little team of pseudo-hackers playing with a few softwares in their filthy basement you might wonder. Well, we think that if everybody works in the same way, hackers as well as any other citizen living under the post-modern rise of the megacorporations, we might eventually stop performing these murders and insanities at a massive scale and start using our monkey smartness for something else than our own dumb selves. Forget about which republican or democrat clone puppet you will vote for, which clone car you will buy or whatever else self-centered activity. Turn off your tv and stop thinking about what AT&T and G.E. want you to think about and start using the remaining not-yet-altered part of your brain for a collective purpose.
Rachel – The Crimson King 02/04/2007
February 18th, 2007 at 1:07 amDas Manifest
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can’t reach.” -Strother Martin
Above any programming skill, security system or computer hardware knowledge (some of us don’t even know a shit about computers), we all share the same disgust about the lack of respect and the perpetual repression made among us, our peers and our race in general. A world afloat in lies and more lies, in public opinion manipulation, corruption, reality alleviators and so-called needs designed by a few marketing graduates and psychologists who learned pretty well how to use the remaining human innate skills in order to hook the people and use them as tools to perpetuate their absolute monarchy. This is how the hive protects itself from evolution. The queen doesn’t have to fight to stay king of the hill, workers fight each others, the same way we does, getting trained to see each other into one single dimension, to see each other in binary, a combination of 011010 and XX or XY ultimately creating the illusion of a human frame. That process is going on from such a long time that most of us actually trained themselves and succeeded to become that kind of pathetic array of binary coding… “Should I choose between the face lift or these silicone tips? Or let’s get both…” and you will be the idiot getting excited by her new binary array next week. No place left for feelings. In fact, you now have to pay to buy your feelings daily to fill up the empty spaces of your 9 to 5 nightmare. Feelings has become a business in itself and you can be sure an healthy-food psychologist faggot will end up cashing them into a brand new BMW convertible to show how many tormented souls he pretends he cured. A dumb blind confederation of suburban idiots congratulating themselves having the same blood type than Tom Cruise and a larger swimming pool than next door’s neighbor.
Everything has become easy enough to allow the dumbest otist to do whatever kind of activity they can actually pay for. Universities and college-level schools now promotes “learning disorders” with special bursaries while most of the true lunatics end up screwed in the administrative catch 22. This is what our “democracy” is about: leaving our faith in the hand of any two-legged brainless monkey. The word “democracy” itself became the worst buzzword of all. Why worrying you might wonder? “Life’s just too short anyway” you say, and if you think too much, you might end up missing your daily sitcom on your 27″ digital flat screen. Time factor has nothing to do and there is no justification for allowing senselessness. People are getting brain-dead to the point where they are actually paying to advertise the shit they are consuming at a depressing rate. Society has became a huge McDonald’s. Everybody has become similar under the neon lights that irradiates shafts of broken glass. The way the Industrialized North pulls the strings with that “globalisation” process is such that if a painter would mix his entire color palette into one big melting pot leading to a disgusting uniform brownish tone. And when something looks brown, smells like shit and tastes like shit, chances are good that this thing turns out to be shit. This is precisely what is happening from too much uniformity, this race for nationalism and the way we have to mass-market any kind of processed junk all around the planetary beehive.
People are getting crazy, everywhere it’s getting worse. Between a life based on the latest hollywood crappy scenario and their own personnal twisted minds corrupted by a childhood being driven by Kraft processed cheese and happy purple dinosaurs singing non-sences. The problem arises from far behind the fact that the regulations that outline our lives are sketched by a buch of individuals who lives in skycrapers and gather an overwelming wealth from exploiting the average. The real enemy is this average itself, the John Doe who allow these opportunists to screw us up until “we will be so poor and cowed that when They will come to take away our kids we won’t complain, but thank them” as stated by the Reverant Stang. You may think you are in a free country with free speech and free press… Get real, you are free to choose between NBC (owned by Microsoft and G.E. who also owns FOX Network), ABC (owned by Disney) or CBS (owned by Viacom who also owns MTV, Paramount, Famous Players, Blockbusters and name it). Useless to say that these few corps also owns thousands of radio stations, cable/local tv networks, movie/music distribution companies, magazines, major newspapers and so on… well, they own about anything you could possibly imagine. As a matter of fact, it is obvious that there is always somewhere a bigger fish. It has also been obvious that 1984 happened way back in ‘53. Media control is just another step towards mind control. The collective alienation reflects itself in every single aspect of our disfunctional society so that we each other become our own enemies. As stated by Albert Parsons, “formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master”.
You might say “ahh, that’s just another 21 years old left freak that took Marx too seriously” well, there was indeed a time I enjoyed myself going to the movies and looking at Rambo digging holes in dozens of Vietcong, but then you realized that these Vietnamese are now forced to shoot defoliant and herbicide that will end up in their irrigation system in the cotton crop they are forced to grow and ship overseas to be bleached somewhere where there is no regulation about the use of carcinogenic chlorine bleach. You realize that this bleached cotton crop is then sent to sweatshops in Pakistan where 1.5 million children from 10 to 14 years old catch contagious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis for being packed into insane conditions for transforming the cotton into fabric that is going to be sent to Bangladesh in a free trade zone factory where they pay a father who has to fed his 12 children because he doesn’t know shit about contraceptives 30 cents an hour of grunt work to sew the damn fabric and ship it to your beloved USA who decides to move the damn plant to Mexico where workers got cancers after spending half of their lives printing the Tommy logo on the goddamn piece of fabric that end up with a production cost of about one hundredth of its selling price that you are going to pay at the mall you are mindlessly shopping every Friday evening. You are not supposed to know that, but you just knew it and once you know something, you cannot unknow it.
What does that has to do with a little team of pseudo-hackers playing with a few softwares in their filthy basement you might wonder. Well, we think that if everybody works in the same way, hackers as well as any other citizen living under the post-modern rise of the megacorporations, we might eventually stop performing these murders and insanities at a massive scale and start using our monkey smartness for something else than our own dumb selves. Forget about which republican or democrat clone puppet you will vote for, which clone car you will buy or whatever else self-centered activity. Turn off your tv and stop thinking about what AT&T and G.E. want you to think about and start using the remaining not-yet-altered part of your brain for a collective purpose.
Rachel – The Crimson King 02/04/2007
February 18th, 2007 at 1:09 amThis is cool!
February 18th, 2007 at 1:11 am#168 Juan C
I don’t know much about economics, but what I suggest at least makes some sort of simplistic sense.
Since I’m a historian in training, I can tell you economists only look at what will benefit the US and corporations in the long term. They say there will be a rough ride along the way, but because that ride does not effect them, they do not see it as a problem.
Since you mention the Mexicans in our country, I must point to an example of modern economy that causes destruction. Puerto Rico is my example, before their interaction with the world economy, they were predominantly agricultural and operated on a barter system. With the arrival of corporations and world economy they switched to an industrial system, which they claimed would create more jobs but instead caused extremely high unemployment and extreme poverty in a society that was already on edge. How did they explain this problem? Overpopulation, the Puerto Ricans were breeding too much, it wasn’t the fault of world economy/industrialist policies.
Also, a companies inability to gain a profit is not because they have to pay benefits, etc. but because they refuse to adapt so they can compete. This is why Ford and GM will likely be gone in a decade, unless they change how they make cars and do business.
Anyway, if the benefits were the problem, that would give all the more support to social benefits being the total domain of the state. Healthcare, welfare, etc. should be provided by the government, then businesses don’t have to worry about paying these benefits. It is the ultimate pro-business stance.
o.k. i think i am done rambling … hopefully that is somewhat organized and understandable … meanwhile I’m gonna go get my sleep so I can be recharged for more productive discussion tomorrow :)
February 18th, 2007 at 1:15 amFor Bush Unitary = Dictatorial King
The REAL legislators legislate to TAKE POWER AWAY from the President and put it into the RIGHTFUL HANDS.
The people.
This is why Bush is so anti Constitution and Dec of Ind.
February 18th, 2007 at 1:24 amIt has also been obvious that 1984 happened way back in ‘53
Hey Rachel, crazy eddie, umm, where you been?…saved you a seat on dah bus.
Society has became a huge McDonald’s. -Rachel
Hey does this mean we get to eat one O them Clinton burgers before we fly off the edge? But really it’s more like target or wallyworld.
We all want the lowest price, and well, you know so what F if the person pushing the basket next to yours has to suffer for your gain?
I mean look at them, wearing flip flops and purple spandex. That hair! At the checkout you both purchase the national enquirer
But we don’t see the big world from inside wallyworld now do we you? No you go inside wally world to buy you a contraption that makes your small world even smaller.
But how wise we are from our tiny rooms glowing with magnetically aimed photons. The light! It speaks to us! Oh the Joy of going to walmart and buying small world view things!!
To sit in my room, bathed in colored light, drinking my vodka, watch war on TV. listening to a head, male and female alike, speak. Brittney Spears cut all her hair off it says. I wonder, ‘I would cut my hair off too if people followed me all day’ The remote close by the thought soon perishes with the flick of a button. Whom knew a remote was hardwired to thought.
February 18th, 2007 at 1:33 amBush sucks
February 18th, 2007 at 1:35 am“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can’t reach.†-Strother Martin
What we have here is the means to communicate, instantaneously, even so we still fail to communicate.
You can insert a teletype machine into every mans home, call it HTML or what not, and the only thing one would have accomplished is a means for the idiots to yell at one another without coming to blows.
February 18th, 2007 at 1:53 am1. Like any system, if used wisely it can be beneficial. When you open up 1000 new appointments in the government then there are a lot of places you can stick people who you *owe* but not in important spots like Ambassador to France. You can make them the deputy of the national organic waste recycling program or head of arizonian sea life conservation program, without worrying about them burning down Paris.
2. Any system that is excessively beneficial to one political party will be brought into check when the party loses control over it (when Hillary/Obama is elected, Republicans will immediately distrust Homeland Security and suddenly become interested in decentralization).
3. Executive orders can undo other executive orders. Bush repealed Clinton’s environmental works in his first 60 days, the next president can undo the appointment scheme and re-employ educated people in government (and while they’re at it, un-seal the Reagan & Bush Sr. Presidential records). But don’t count on it. #2 is more likely.
I guess what I’m saying is that Douglas Adams had it right: Don’t panic.
February 18th, 2007 at 1:55 amthis isn’t hard to believe
February 18th, 2007 at 1:56 amA blatant power-grab by King Georgie…what shall we do about it?
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A Proclamation for Action against the Corruption of our Great Country’s most Basic Rights and Freedoms.
To paraphrase America’s Founding Fathers:
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance”
“Give me Liberty or give me Death”
To paraphrase the Constitution:
“If the Government no longer supports the views and wills of it’s People…then the People should Abolish the existing Government and Start afresh…so that the Government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE FACE OF THIS EARTH”
To paraphrase the “Wizard of OZ”:
“Uh-oh, Toto…We’re not in Kansas anymore!”
WE, The People, have FAILED in our duty to preserve what MILLIONS of our Brothers, Fathers and Forefathers died to protect: a true DEMOCRACRATIC Nation of the People (not the Fascist ELITE) devoted to the “In-Alienable” Rights of Freedom, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Instead, WE, The People of America, have allowed – and by lack of action, even sanctioned – the Wholesale Dismemberment of our supposedly Beloved system of Government by a small but EXTREMELY POWERFUL bunch of Pedophilic, Drug-dealing, Money-and-Power Worshipping, Alcohol/Drug/Power Addicted, Homosexual, Fear-Mongering, Sadistic MURDERERS (re: Bohemian Grove, Monte Rio, CA), whose idea of a good time (when they’re not making fortunes off the sale of both “legal” (re: Lilly Pharmaceuticals, et al.)and “ill-legal” drugs and arms (re: CIA/NSA Black Ops Funding, Iran/Contra); raping the natural resources of OUR planet (re: ExxonMobile, BP, et al.); slaying innocent civilians both at home and abroad (re: 9/11 and just about every military action we’ve made in the past 40+ years); enslaving the world through Media- and Economic-based social manipulation (re: “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars”); and sending OUR Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters, Sons, Daughters, Friends and Neighbors off to die in some ill-conceived “war” on an IDEA called “Terrorism” – how do you kill an IDEA???) is to Abduct, Drug, Torture innocent young men and women, then strip them naked (both literally and psychologically), set them loose in a secured, reprisal-free environment they control (re: Mt. Shasta Military Reservation) and indulge themselves in hunting them down with dogs and guns, then murdering them in something they refer to as “The Greatest Game on Earth”, the ultimate “extreme sport” (Never heard of it? Try Google searching for it. Or, just ask the VP…it’s supposedly one of his favorites!)
To paraphrase another:
“The ONLY thing we have to FEAR is FEAR ITSELF”
We’ve all heard it, how many of YOU understand what that REALLY MEANS?
Do YOU?
So I put it to you rather bluntly:
Are you a MAN, and willing to do a MAN’S JOB of fighting (through words and actions) against these charlatans for your (until the Patriot Act) Constitutionally guaranteed Rights and Freedoms (like our fathers did before us?), or:
Are you “Sheeple”, willing to let the most noble Dreams and Aspirations of so many who died for your comfortable lives be usurped by these reprehensibly evil beings?
By visiting this website, you have already taken the first step. Are you MAN enough to go further, and accept the responsibility of guarding and preserving those precious Ideals of Freedom, Life, Liberty, Equality and the Pursuit of Happiness we so often pay only lip-service to?
ARE YOU A MAN?
The future depends on US, and our actions made TODAY. Don’t let the future pay for the mistakes WE CAN CORRECT NOW!
“A People should not fear its Government; A Government should fear its People”
“For you shall know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH shall set you free”
“Don’t get mad, get even!”
“Know your ENEMY as you know YOURSELF”
“We are all one consciousness observing itself subjectively; There is no Death: Life is just an Illusion and we are the Imagination of Ourselves”
“It’s not a war on drugs; it’s a war on personal freedom”
I LOVE AMERICA, and I’m DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT by writing this Proclamation to encourage anyone and everyone who still cares to take action and sow the seeds of discontent. My only goal is to help make you think deeply on just what is at stake here, and what we can do about rescuing ourselves from this revolting situation we have allowed ourselves to develop.
Our Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves…and we SHOULD be ashamed.
Please copy this post and send it to as many others as you feel may be willing to help us help ourselves in restoring OUR beloved country to its former glory as a beacon of Freedom and Justice in our world. Only through our collective efforts will any positive changes be made.
WE MUST NOT FAIL AGAIN!
February 18th, 2007 at 2:03 am#181 It’s not a power grab by George. It’s a power grab by the Executive Branch. Stop being so personal. In 23 months when the “power” is in the hands of a Democrat, how will you feel?
February 18th, 2007 at 2:12 amGood stuff…
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
don’t support the troops
deny them any more help
February 18th, 2007 at 2:15 amcall their mission a failure
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hey dudes/dudettes
as i stated…………..
- most sacred leader, that is public servant of the land
- fast talking
- slick/smooth/totally popular
- cherished by all mighty to rule us
- political leech
Bush absolutely is a criminal in nature, but just not quite
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and i’m the coolest DUDE in the universe man, like dig, i’m
heavenly awesome :)
executive order to bypass congress.. that’s not even just corrupt
bush is a madman
enough to puke him right out of office with the rest of his snakeoil
February 18th, 2007 at 2:16 amcrew
jeez….. the picture shows 3 cozy crooks in the
house cuz of all the rah rahs from bush knows
lisa who knows katy who knows faith…..
appointees but not quilify.. well actually they
February 18th, 2007 at 2:30 amare all qualified right through the revolving
door and extremly experienced at corruption
Comment by USpace
I looked at your PAPA GATT coulter style rhetoric.
What amazes me is that you think you know what the universal God thinks. You think that because YOU, who has crammed much media BS, down your wide open all accepting gullet, know God, much less what he thinks.
If you were a seagull you would likely choke on an empty six pack ring in your ‘wisdom’
You know nothing. You, human, cannot to this day comprehend space nor time. The reason you vermin are trapped on earth is because you are mentally unstable and cannot be allowed into the universe. Your Papa Gatt rubbish is proof of your inability to grasp concepts bigger than the bag of cheetos you stuff your numbingly inept self with.
Do you understand me?
February 18th, 2007 at 2:31 amKaptain Kaligula=JTitor=
February 18th, 2007 at 3:01 amKaptain Kaligula=JTitor=
Comment by troll alert
Your truly a universal idiot, did you know that?
Do you think your baby games are not as transparent as your thoughts?
February 18th, 2007 at 3:11 amTalk about getting a proper local lynching at the hands of rednecks! This should be a warning sign to us all!
Wal-Mart Turns in Student’s Anti-Bush Photo, Secret Service Investigates Him
By Matthew Rothschild
October 4, 2005
S
elina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students.
But that’s what happened on September 20.
Jarvis had assigned her senior civics and economics class “to take photographs to illustrate their rights in the Bill of Rights,†she says. One student “had taken a photo of George Bush out of a magazine and tacked the picture to a wall with a red thumb tack through his head. Then he made a thumb’s down sign with his own hand next to the President’s picture, and he had a photo taken of that, and he pasted it on a poster.â€
According to Jarvis, the student, who remains anonymous, was just doing his assignment, illustrating the right to dissent.
But over at the Kitty Hawk Wal-Mart, where the student took his film to be developed, this right is evidently suspect.
An employee in that Wal-Mart photo department called the Kitty Hawk police on the student. And the Kitty Hawk police turned the matter over to the Secret Service.
On Tuesday, September 20, the Secret Service came to Currituck High.“At 1:35, the student came to me and told me that the Secret Service had taken his poster,†Jarvis says. “I didn’t believe him at first. But they had come into my room when I wasn’t there and had taken his poster, which was in a stack with all the others.â€
She says the student was upset.
“He was nervous, he was scared, and his parents were out of town on business,†says Jarvis.
She, too, had to talk to the Secret Service.
“Halfway through my afternoon class, the assistant principal got me out of class and took me to the office conference room,†she says. “Two men from the Secret Service were there. They asked me what I knew about the student. I told them he was a great kid, that he was in the homecoming court, and that he’d never been in any trouble.â€
Then they got down to his poster.
“They asked me, didn’t I think that it was suspicious,†she recalls. “I said no, it was a Bill of Rights project!â€
At the end of the meeting, they told her the incident “would be interpreted by the U.S. attorney, who would decide whether the student could be indicted,†she says.
The student was not indicted, and the Secret Service did not pursue the case further.
“I blame Wal-Mart more than anybody,†she says. “I was really disgusted with them. But everyone was using poor judgment, from Wal-Mart up to the Secret Service.â€
A person in the photo department at the Wal-Mart in Kitty Hawk said, “You have to call either the home office or the authorities to get any information about that.â€
Jacquie Young, a spokesperson for Wal-Mart at company headquarters, did not provide comment within a 24-hour period.
Sharon Davenport of the Kitty Hawk Police Department said, “We just handed it over†to the Secret Service. “No investigative report was filed.â€
Jonathan Scherry, spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., said, “We certainly respect artistic freedom, but we also have the responsibility to look into incidents when necessary. In this case, it was brought to our attention from a private citizen, a photo lab employee.â€
Jarvis uses one word to describe the whole incident: “ridiculous.â€
February 18th, 2007 at 6:55 amWhile the biggest criminal in history pillages and plunders, his minions have nothing better to do than harass high school kids.
I feel safer already.
February 18th, 2007 at 7:00 amPresident Bush should propose that we make Iraq our 51st state
February 18th, 2007 at 8:06 amThe answer to the executive breaches of the constitution is impeachment. We need to move forward and tie this goofy son of a bitch up with legal proceedings just like they did with Clinton. I will take lying about a blow job any day compared to the destruction of the constitution of the United States of America. Dubya must go.
February 18th, 2007 at 9:27 amWe have an out of control drunk in the White House, surrounded by enabling fascist idiots.
February 18th, 2007 at 9:29 amWaxman, I hope you’re watching!
February 18th, 2007 at 9:52 amPresident Bush should propose that we make Iraq our 51st state
Comment by Zell.Miller04 — February 18, 2007 @ 8:06 am
The spot has already been taken – by Mexico.
February 18th, 2007 at 10:19 amJarvis uses one word to describe the whole incident: “ridiculous.â€
Comment by Redneck Country! Watch Out! in NC — February 18, 2007 @ 6:55 am
I’d use another, but the spam filter would eat it…
Fear is the only tactic these goons know.
What the hell has happened to this country? Sheesh…
February 18th, 2007 at 10:24 amThat is his definition of bi-partianship.
February 18th, 2007 at 10:39 amFALSE troll alert ALERT!!!!!
# 187 @ 3:01 am.
February 18th, 2007 at 11:17 amI just got through catching up on my Onion Homeland Insecurity Page-a-Day Calendar–I’ve not torn off a page since early January–and when I finished, and turned to read some real news, I thought the folks at the Onion had hijacked the ThinkProgress site. Would that this were merely a joke. Would that it were funny at all.
Somebody needs to make this guy just go away.
February 18th, 2007 at 11:33 amour democracy has given birth to a dictatorship….conceived thriugh the apathy and ignorance of the people
February 18th, 2007 at 11:48 amThis is excellent news! It’s about time Bush takes his leadership to a new level. We need to dump the Constitution anyways and install the ten commandments. Then we can force you athiest heathen to worship our God. Praise the Lord!
February 18th, 2007 at 1:18 pmThe chickenshits in Congress don’t have tha cajones to impeach these criminals.
February 18th, 2007 at 3:07 pmsweet! – let’s “bypass” congress and lock the arrogant little cocksmoker up today!
February 18th, 2007 at 3:48 pmThen we can force you athiest heathen to worship our God. Praise the Lord!
Comment by Christian Taliban — February 18, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
And what will you do with the Jews, Mormans, Hindus, etc?…
February 18th, 2007 at 4:05 pmComment by Kaptain Kaligula
Thanks for visiting, I’m glad my ” PAPA GATT coulter style rhetoric” got your blood boiling. I must be doing something right. Keep trying to think straight. You might succeed.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
never debate moonbat thoughts
truth eventually wins
February 18th, 2007 at 4:55 pmone on one they will fold
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It appears Sgt Stryker is no other than the famous White House Correspondent Jeff Gannon’s sleeping partner. So what do you expect!
February 19th, 2007 at 3:22 amHey,
been reading your stuff.
speaking as an old ‘nam war protester…I LOVE YOU FOLKS!!!
gives me hope to see folks actually thinking. the trolls are predictably chicken-snits. studies actually show that the scared kids grow up to be conservatives.
anyways…i made something for the thoughtful among you. hit http://www.CBRproject-podcast.org
it’s an mp3 of the Bill of Rights, Amendments and Constitution read by Don Westcot (voice of PBS NOVA)
few have time for the study needed to study these. i started this to ease becoming really familiar with these “rules of play”.
happy listening.
February 19th, 2007 at 4:42 amEd
Of course, in 2008 all those bypasses will be in the hands of Democrats.
February 19th, 2007 at 10:46 am* glad to see so much intelligent comments. there is still hope for this country!
* #167 re corporations.
> corporations have a legal, fiduciary duty to their owners (i.e. shareholders) to maintain and increase the value of their shares.
> until about 1885, corporations were governed by state law as creatures of the state. they had only those rights and responsibilities as state law allowed them. if it wasn’t in the law, then the corporation didn’t have it.
> about 1885 the supreme court decided a case [santa clara v. union pacific railroad, i believe] that was brought on the laws from the previous paragraph. although the court’s decision did NOT directly address the issue of corporate ‘personhood’, it did agree that santa clara (in california), did have the right to regulate the corporation.
> however, the clerk of the court was an ex-railroad executive and one of the duties of the clerk was to write the headnotes, an introduction to the decision that summarizes its key points. this person wrote in the head notes that the court had decided a corporation was a person under the 14th amendment. that was a lie and not in the court’s decision nor any reasonable deduction from it. we have lived with the results of that decision since then as corporations continually used that headnote to expand their ‘rights’.
* i agree that if corporations and their executive officers were held to account for the crimes committed by ‘the corporation’ and punished accordingly, then i’m sure they would act more responsibly. while a person can be put in jail for the rest of their lives for some crimes, what do you do with the legal fiction called a ‘corporation’? the equivalent would be placing the corporation into receivership with all its actions and decisions decided by a court appointed receiver and periodic, public review to confirm it is no longer committing those crimes for which it was convicted. the corporate equivalent to the death penalty would be revocation of its charter and subsequent dissolution and sell-off of its various parts.
* yes i know: i am dreaming, but i also believe that until corporations are returned to the creatures of the states that were for the several centuries before 1885, we will continue to experience their unchecked greed and lust for power.
“those that would give up a little liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security.” — b. franklin [1759] \\ born free
February 19th, 2007 at 12:59 pmOf course, in 2008 all those bypasses will be in the hands of Democrats.
Comment by Marna Terry #208
…and the Patriot Act as well…
February 20th, 2007 at 12:15 amIMPEACHMENT, NOW?
February 20th, 2007 at 10:49 amStop being so personal. In 23 months when the “power†is in the hands of a Democrat, how will you feel?
Comment by DM — February 18, 2007
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I don’t want that imbalance of power in the hands of ANY one branch of OUR government, regardless of partisanship…This is EXACTLY the reason that our forefathers instituted the concept of “checks and balances” into the Constitution of the United States of America in the first place-they understood that too much control in any one branch, be it exectutive, legislative or judicial, would be detrimental to the system as a whole.
Or were you sleeping during Civics class in school?
Did you even have a civics class in school, because apparently either many schools do not offer this VERY important class anymore, or the subject is not being taught as thoroughly as it should be taught…extreme cutbacks in educational funding at work, no doubt!
It is a shame that we even have to discuss this subject at all…but, I’m glad that at the very least we have a forum such as this one to do so.
Lastly, while I want to see King Georgie go away ASAP, I don’t care for the next in line too much, either…His whole administration needs to be vanquished!
Besides all that, can you not tell that I’m Libertarian???
February 20th, 2007 at 11:57 amAnd a Toaist?
February 20th, 2007 at 11:59 amWELL! It seems that CHIMPya DOES HAVE A DEATH-WISH, TO BE THE THIRD PRESIDENT IMPEACHED IN HISTORY and the FIRST ONE TO BE CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HIGH CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD!!!!! IF CHIMPya DOES BYPASS CONGRESS, HE WILL HAVE SEALED HIS FATE AND HIS DOOM, AND HE CAN KISS HIS ASS GOOD-BYE!!!!!
February 20th, 2007 at 7:36 pmDigital Photo Storage: Built-in vs. Removable Storage
Most older digital cameras come equipped with fixed storage which limits the number of pictures you can take before you have to download to make room for more. If that sound like your camera, then it’s time to upgrade.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:27 am