thats a bit mellow dramatic isnt it? yeah…blogging, marching, petitioning, is real brave.

be careful how you throw around the word “brave”.

id venture to say that there is no bravery that isnt wearing a uniform.

i also say that reading this blog is a bit depressing. I am not a repub, but im conservative about many things. and if you follow politics, youd have to agree that the repib party is anything but conservative on many matters these days..

I would hope that we all could stop such aggressive dialouge at some point. In reading Right Wing blogs…I see the same exact thing that i see here…all people who swear that the other side is wrong/ignorant/naive/week. All quoting self-proclaimed superior sources of information. I cant figure out if its comical or scary.
We are fast becoming a country of blind idealouges…full of quotes but totally void of original ideas.

our answers arent in the multi-millionaire DC pols…most of whom have zero real world experience… the answers are within. the less govenrment involvement the better.

as far as the notes above about the media being a “republican echo-chamber” are concerned, I must say that this idea is ridiculous. As someone who works in film and television over the past 13 years in NY and LA, I can without doubt say that the mass-media is absolutetly and undeniably leftist. Not to be insulting…but any claim to the contrary is just ridiculous and literaaly ignorant. Sure, the righties have FOX NEWS and Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity on AM radio… but the leftists dominate EVERY OTHER MEDIA OUTLET in the country. to deny this is to be in denial.

and to the person who lauds Clintons response to the 93 bombings…I would argue that it is his inaction that has contributed to where we are today. After all..it was Shiek Khalid Mohammed who masterminded the 93 bombings and was never pursued properly… he came back and masterminded the 9/11 plot. It was Clintons refusal to accept a “non-prosecutable bin laden” that allowed Osama to be free to plan oversee 9/11. Whether or not Clintons principles/ideas are in question here doesnt matter… the results speak for themselves… during his presidency we saw 93 WTC bombings, MULTIPLE US Embassy Bombings, USS Cole Bombing and the planning of the 9/11 attacks…

Our constitution and our principles are awesome models of civilization and I dont denounce anybody who values these ideals… I do however argue that maybe these ideals do not effectively safe guard us against a people with no such ideals… For better or for worse, the ideas and actions of the recent administration have provided 1 inarguable result… NO ATTACKS in 8 years.

hopefully this new Yemenise Deputy isnt the next mastermind… apparently the bloggers here think that this guy is the only dangerous person to be released from gitmo… if they even accept that. Maybe Dan Rather can do a factual report on it…complete with forgeries.

“Why don’t the pseudo-conservatives understand that the Bush administration is creating MORE terrorists, not less?”

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0001454.html

Kinda been around for a while. However, I don’t find a it to be a terrorist act if its against a military target (USS Cole, Oklahoma City Bombing etc.) I find them to be acts of war. Just hard to delcare war on non-state entities.

We should probably just keep doing w/e the Terrorists want because that will get them to stop amirite?

“Tony “The Fixer” Scalia parroting misinformation from the Bush Defense Department?”

I too wasn’t very happy with Scalia’s entire Dissent. Although he’s one of the few Justices that only cites the Constitution and Constitutionally Acceptable Federal Laws. He does not cite “public opinion” (usually obtained through Constitutional Amendments) or Foreign law/Opinion like most of the other judges. But of course appreciating that is limited to those with a understanding of law and our actual form of government.

Also, thanks for reminding folks that honor, dignity & integrity has been practically non-existent during the bu*sh reign of terror – all the more obvious when compared to President Clinton’s terms – even with all its warts.

And, it’s no secret this neoCon admin. has hijacked the media creating a well-oiled echo chamber. Soviet Style.

So the owners of the paper reflect the quality of the journalists? (another chris)

Gee, this is a tough one.

So the “owners” (let’s say, the Kremlin) of the “paper” (let’s say, TASS and PRAVDA) reflect the quality of the “journalists” (let’s say, all the loyal Communists who wanted to keep their jobs and didn’t want to end up in Siberia).

Yes, I’d have to say that if the owners of any news outlet are inflexible totalitarians (like Rupert Murdoch, Rev. Moon, the Communist leaders in the Kremlin during the Cold War, or the Defense Department under Donald Rumsfeld) then there will definitely be a conservative slant to whatever their puppet journalists/public affairs officers are writing or spouting on-air. The warped ideology of these types of conservative totalitarians will always prevail, will always trump factual reporting. No deviation from totalitarian-inspired “talking points” is tolerated, even to report “the truth that sets men free.”

When I served in the Air Force years ago, during Nam, during the Watergate scandal, I experienced “media blackout” firsthand. I remember walking one day into the base cafeteria overseas, seeing the Stars and Stripes banner headline “Nixon Resigns,” and thinking “What? I didn’t even know President Nixon was in trouble.” Either I had been completely spaced out (actually very probable) or Stars and Stripes had not been reporting (on the front page, versus buried inside) how serious the charges against the Nixon administration really were. Only when I saw “All the President’s Men” several years later, after getting out, did I grasp the true extent of the constitutional crisis that a bunch of criminal, conservative, “tough-on-crime” Republicans had foisted on our democracy…kind of like today.

Oh, and AC, I read the same articles and figured there was bound to be some recidivism among those released, just like there’s recidivism in our own penal system, but I refuse to be “Willie Hortoned,” if you know what I mean. I refuse, based on the oath I swore to upon entering the military, to trash our Constitution and the “rule of law” based on someone’s irrational fear of our judicial system, which I know is behind the Bush administration coming up with their kangaroo-court military tribunals. This didn’t happen after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. President Bill Clinton, for all his other faults, didn’t trash the U.S. Constitution, respected the “rule of law,” and had the Justice Department try the case in federal court, with the federal judge keeping any sensitive information safe, while giving the right-wing religious fundamentalist terrorists a fair trial, their day in court, an American tradition. The only thing that’s changed between 1993 and today is that some people with a lot less honor than President Bill Clinton are now in the White House.

And, good one, Ranting Tommy. “Ignorance breeds fear, fear breeds Republicans.” And “Republicans” is interchangeable with conservatives or totalitarians or fascists…who all seem to have a one-track “talking point” mindset.

Justice SCALIA…
The Urban Legend.

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They said that after his release in Kuwait, Ajmi traveled to Iraq via Syria — a common way for foreign fighters to enter Iraq through porous borders. Military officials said Ajmi’s motives were unclear, but in a lengthy martyrdom audio recording before his death, Ajmi implores people to take part in suicide bombings to attack Americans.

Wayne,

I’m in Korea right now, Camp Hovey to be exact. it’s about 2 in the morning here. 1st Heavy Brgade Combat team is still in Korea along with about 37,000 other troops.

June 21st, 2008 at 1:02 pm

The delta time from Seoul to EDT is 14 hours. That means that when you posted, it was 3AM in Korea.

Since it is past midnight, did you miss the “The Walk of Shame
?”

“In one sense, I am a human being living with a physical body like each of you. But in the context of Heaven’s providence, I am God’s ambassador, sent to earth with His full authority.

Emperors, kings and presidents who enjoyed opulence and power on earth have [...] declared to all that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity’s Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.”

If he is, I’m in deep sheit. However, if he isn’t but says he is, wouldn’t that make him a false prophet? The worse kind of blasphemy? I can’t think of anything worse from a Christian point of view. But y’all still read, quote and love the Moonie times. When y’all gonna have a mass wedding?

lol.

Republican double standards are fun… sometimes.

From the SOURCE where possible, and MULTIPLE SOURCES as much as possible, and NOT from the MOONIES OR FOX if at all possible.

the best thing you’ve written in a long time.

Another Chris Says:

Integrity Do what’s right, legally and morally

Personal Courage Face fear danger or adversity (physical or moral)

Personal courage is locking up middle easterners indefinitely even if they have no evidence against them to try them with because we pissed them off by incarcerating them for no reason. That kind of blows your courage and integrity claims right out of the water you pantywaist.

In WWII all able bodied men ( and many women) served, Americans endured Rationing, War profiteering was Anathema, Nobody got a tax cut….the Country was United. And the WE who whipped the Axis has to include the Russians, who suffered lots more casualties than anyone else.

As for what kind of Commander in Chief is leading (sic) this country…I think you know thew answer to your question.

Question Number 1: How many times did the Japs attack Pearl Harbor after Dec 7,1941?

12?

Question Number 2: We whupped the Axis in WW II in a little over 4 years,world-wide, so why haven’t we whipped a couple hundred towel-head in almost 7 years?

Because if we actually win that would deny Republicans their “fear” card to use in elections?

We’ve captured thousands of their No.2 men, how many can there be left?

As many as Bush wants?

Question Number 3: What kind of Commander in Chief is leading this country anyway?

The corporate wh0re type?