ThinkFast: September 11, 2008
ThinkFast: September 11, 2008
On the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, new data “from a public health registry that tracks the health effects of 9/11 suggest that as many as 70,000 people may have developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the terrorist attacks.” Approximately 3,800 to 12,600 may have developed asthma after being exposed to heavy pollution that day.
“Deaths among those working the nation’s oil and gas fields have risen at an alarming rate,” the AP reports today. Illustrating the “soaring cost of America’s unquenchable thirst for energy,” at least 598 workers died on the job between 2002 and 2007 as the number of deaths per year has risen by around 70 percent.
In July, President Bush approved secret orders “that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government.” The New York Times writes that the legal basis for the operations remain “unclear,” and the Pakistani army has said it “would defend the country’s sovereignty ‘at all costs.”
An Iraqi plan to award six no-bid contracts to Western oil companies has been withdrawn. Iraq’s oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani said this week that the talks “had dragged on for so long that the companies could not now fulfill the work” within the one year time frame of the deals. The companies confirmed on Wednesday that the deals had been canceled.”
On the trail: Today, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL) will both be at Ground Zero and then participating in a ServiceNation presidential forum in New York. McCain will also be in Shanksville, PA, where the hijacked United Airlines airplane crashed on 9/11.
“Workers with professional degrees, such as doctors and lawyers, were the only educational group to see their inflation-adjusted earnings increase over the most recent economic expansion, adding to the concern that the economy has benefited higher-earning Americans at the expense of others.”
The United States is “running out of time” in Afghanistan, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee yesterday. “I’m not convinced we’re winning in Afghanistan,” said Mullen before quickly adding that he’s “convinced we can.”
A Colorado meatpacking company fired about 100 Muslim workers “who walked off the job last week in protest of the firm’s refusal to give them time to pray during the holy month of Ramadan.” Supervisors had originally granted permission for prayer breaks, but “non-Muslim employees protested,” and on Friday the company refused to grant break time. The union that represents the employees said it would challenge the firing.
A new report from the Homeland Security Department’s Office of Inspector General has found that “the government wasted millions of dollars on four no-bid contracts it handed out for Hurricane Katrina work, including paying $20 million for a camp for evacuees that was never inspected and proved to be unusable.” Investigators say the U.S. government has wasted nearly $1 billion in the recovery effort.
And finally: Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee was burning up Washington, DC, yesterday. First, he stopped by the Center for American Progress for an event on music education, where he and Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY) performed “I Saw Her Standing There.” Huckabee was on bass, while Crowley handled guitar and vocals. Later in the day, Huckabee was named “Funniest Celebrity in Washington” at the annual stand-up comedy competition at DC Improv. Watch his performance here.
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My Tribute to 9/11
My thoughts go out to all the family members that lost a loved one on this day 7 years ago. Also, to all the brave men and women that risked their lives on search and rescue operations looking for survivors. This country owes you a debt of gratitude for the peril you risked and for your sacrifices; many have paid dearly for with serious health problems.
This day we honor you in our thoughts and in our hearts. To the survivors, may your lives be filled with peace, tranquility & love. — Freedom Rebel
September 11th, 2008 at 9:00 amCREW Profiles “Most Corrupt Members Of Congress”
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released its fourth annual report, “CREW’s Most Corrupt Members of Congress, outlining Washington politicians who it says have “most egregiously betrayed the public’s trust.”
12 of the 24 members of Congress listed in the report are under investigation. The thirteenth, New York Congressman Charlie Rangel, has opened a House ethics investigation on himself.
CREW executive director Melanie Sloan. “Unfortunately, the members of Congress listed in CREW’s Most Corrupt report have decided that their personal needs are paramount to those they represent. This report holds them accountable for those choices.”
The entire list is as follows:
Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-CA)
Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL)
Rep. Vito J. Fossella (R-NY)
Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-LA)
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-IL)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Rep. Gary G. Miller (R-CA)
Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV)
Rep. Timothy F. Murphy (R-PA)
Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA)
Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM)
Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)
Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ)
Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY)
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
The report also adds four “dishonorable mentions”:
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN)
Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA)
Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH)
RawStory
It is a volume CREW put out to the tune of 244 pages long. The first 4 or 5 Republicans alone take 45 pages to list all of their infractions alone. Of course the longest entry is on Ted Stevens, the list would be minimal if it only listed the laws he didn’t break.
From money laundering, bribes, illegal gifts & so one, if any one of us had broken just one of those laws we would already be in jail. The list needs to go viral; we can’t afford our politicians to put themselves before what is best for the country and it’s citizens.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:05 amIt was 7 years ago today that my wife was 3 months pregnant with twins.
It was 7 years ago today that I went through my normal morning routine at a chain pharmacy.
It was 7 years ago today that a patient called into the store with refills, and stated that “a plane has hit the WTC”.
It was 7 years ago today that my first initial thought was some poor soul slamming his Cessna into that building.
It was 7 years ago today that, without access to a television, I was fed information from the internet and my family while I worked. In fact, it was the first time in my recollection that my job seemed secondary.
It was 7 years ago today that I called our daughters elementary, concerned with how they would present the days happenings to the students, especially with all the deaths.
It was 7 years ago today that the nation, in fact the world, stopped.
It was 7 years ago today that changed our world.
Today will be my only post. I am numb to the point of apathy. Not because of indifference, but because of the constant whoring of this infamous day for political gain.
Today I suggest you watch a clip of yesterdays Countdown with Olberman’s commentary.
Today I will honor the victim’s families by my thoughts, by my prayers, by my ignoring any and all politics.
Today I will shed a tear for those families, and for the nation.
For those who post here regularly: I love you!
For those who post here as trolls and as antagonist: I love you!
For those who may come upon this thread for the first time: I love you!
The terrorists will never take away my love for this country and its people.
We were once a great nation. Come November, we will be again.
If I may be so bold as to utilize spencers mom endings:
PEACE!!!
(I promise to back tomorrow, with a vengeance!)
September 11th, 2008 at 9:06 amDear NYT,
The legal basis remains unclear because it doesn’t exist. This is merely a last ditch effort to capture or kill or claim to have killed Osama bin Laden who, apparently, according to Spinmeister Perino, was not the deus ex machina for 9/11. This last ditch effort is a desperate move by the Cheney arm of the Petro Cosa Nostra to manipulate the proles and hand the election to the GOP so his crimes will not be discovered and his wan ass won’t be hanging from a lamppost in the near future.
Thank you.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:11 am“…Illustrating the ’soaring cost of America’s unquenchable thirst for energy,’” ?????
Or maybe it illustrates the complete abdication of any oversight of job safety standards.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:14 amAmen DRxJ. PEACE!
September 11th, 2008 at 9:17 amDear AP.
Actually this illustrates not the cost of America’s thirst for energy but the price of putting the American Petroleum Institute and its whoreson shills in command of oil worker safety. See: mines, collapse of.
Thank you.
ps – the chapped lips resulting from their appendage to Dick Cheney’s wan ass for so long will be quite painful. No amount of vaseline will serve as palliative.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:19 am911 is not about the failure of Government. It is about a failure of GOVERNANCE. The inability or unwillingness of those in the position of governing to govern. And that was the mantra of the Republicans since Raygun, and especially ever since the Lizard King Newt took over the plan to overthrow the United States Government in 1994, and ut out the Contract on America.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:19 amI am a New Yorker. Yes, I witnessed the burning buildings from my rooftop. Yes, I lost friends. Yes, I am still pissed. Yes, I am willing to lay down my life to defend this country, and it is not over in Iraq. It is right here, right now.
“that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
A Colorado meatpacking company fired about 100 Muslim workers “who walked off the job last week in protest of the firm’s refusal to give them time to pray during the holy month of Ramadan.” Supervisors had originally granted permission for prayer breaks, but “non-Muslim employees protested,” and on Friday the company refused to grant break time. The union that represents the employees said it would challenge the firing.
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Lovely. I predict that the Christian Hate Squad will be out in force today with their piss-and-vinegar guns a-blazing.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:19 amAn Iraqi plan to award six no-bid contracts to Western oil companies has been withdrawn.
In other news, Vice President Dick Cheney accused Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki of moving aggressively to develop nuclear weapons over the past 14 months to add to his stockpile of chemical and biological arms. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mullen said the U.S. military was ready if called upon to strike Iraq.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:20 amIn July, President Bush approved secret orders “that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government.” The New York Times writes that the legal basis for the operations remain “unclear,” and the Pakistani army has said it “would defend the country’s sovereignty ‘at all costs.”
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Waitaminnit — haven’t the Republicans been pounding Obama for a similar stance? In April 2007, Obama said, “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.” And ever since then, his opponents have been spinning this into “Obama plans to invade a sovereign nation!” (never mind that Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran are also sovereign nations).
And now Bush has given his OK for attacks in Pakistan without Pakistan’s permission. Apparently, IOKIYAR.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:22 amHAPPY 9-11, REPUBLICANS!
This is YOUR special day! I won’t bother you too much as you have so much work to do skullf##king the dead and all…
And before any of you fascist trolls open your goddamn mouths – I was almost one of the dead you claim to speak for. I was in the subway as the attack was occurring above. If they had decided some other method I’d probably not be here to type this and call you out on your disgusting exploitation of this national tragedy.
But of course thanks to you, the Mayor of 9-11, and the Cheney Administration, I no longer feel ANYTHING beyond disgust at you when this day arrives. You make me sick.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:22 amUnless we re-investigate the day America attacked itself, we will continue down this dark, dark road. Bush and Cheney didn’t even want to investigate this. Funny. They wanted to go after Clinton for lying about a blow job.
But since the Day America Attacked itself 7 years ago: we started 2 illegal wars, trampled on the Constitution & the Bill of Rights, food and gas prices are through the roof and infrastructure continues to crumble.
We are now living in a Military Economy where the Blackwater USA’s etc are making out literally like bandits with no legal oversight.
There is virtually no Civilian Economy to speak of. Our food is tainted. Seniors have to decide between taking their doasge of medicine or eating.
Meanwhile the small minorty rich living in their gated communities who cannot remember how many homes they have get richer and richer — and the people of New Orleans live in trailers that are making them sick.
There is light at the end of the tunnel. And that light is the light shining on 9/11 : the mother issue of our time and the sole cause of troubling, reckless foreign (xenophobic) foreign policy today)
September 11th, 2008 at 9:23 amI am left to assume the high school dropouts at Blackwater and its myriad clones were not categorized separately.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:24 amHappy anniversary, Project FUBELT:
September 11th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Kay says:
“Unless we re-investigate the day America attacked itself, we will continue down this dark, dark road. Bush and Cheney didn’t even want to investigate this.”
I thought that is what happens when mass-murder happens. You know, cordone off the “evidence” don’t ship it out to be smelted. Look for clues, come up with hypotheses, see how the FACTS fit the theories. See which theory BEST fits all the facts.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:27 amHmmm, interesting. Maybe the Enquirer would know, because….”Inquiring minds want to know.”
I work 5 blocks north of the WTC site. 7 years ago I watched 1 World burn, then saw 2 World explode. Later I saw 2 World fall down. 7 years later the perpitrators of those ourtages still haven’t been brought to justice. Enough is enough, let’s stop the Fear, Fear, Fear drum, drop the pretense that, as a nation, we’re actually doing something effective against terrorisom and start doing something effective! No more fear, no more blood for oil, no more ‘nation building’. Bring OBL to justice, restore the Bill of Rights and put this Nation back on track!
September 11th, 2008 at 9:28 amImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
And I’d respectfully like to use Spencer’s Mom’s ending;
PEACE!!!
misshusseinmolly Says:
In July, President Bush approved secret orders “that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government.” The New York Times writes that the legal basis for the operations remain “unclear,” and the Pakistani army has said it “would defend the country’s sovereignty ‘at all costs.”
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Waitaminnit — haven’t the Republicans been pounding Obama for a similar stance? In April 2007, Obama said, “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.” And ever since then, his opponents have been spinning this into “Obama plans to invade a sovereign nation!” (never mind that Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran are also sovereign nations).
And now Bush has given his OK for attacks in Pakistan without Pakistan’s permission. Apparently, IOKIYAR.
My 16yo son pointed this out this morning.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:29 amIt remains to be seen how McCain will use 9/11 to further his campaign today. Not if he will use it, but when. I believe he agreed not to use 9/11 before his convention started, and we know he didn’t respect that promise, so it’s only a matter of time.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:30 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
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Waitaminnit — haven’t the Republicans been pounding Obama for a similar stance?
Oh, you noticed that, eh? See, that’s why you could never get a job in the MSM.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:30 amWhen asked for comment about this, Dick “Dick” Cheney said, “So?”
President Pinocchio was much more compassionate, “Congress could have done something, and they should have, but they failed. No one suffers more than I do because of this tragedy.”
Condi Gaptooth: “No one could have anticipated….”
September 11th, 2008 at 9:31 amWhistleblower breaks 15-year silence to allege McCain hid wife’s drug abuse
Cindy McCain’s addiction to prescription painkillers emerged into public view 14 years ago with a well-orchestrated PR campaign designed to preserve her husband’s political future.
Aside from a lengthy contemporary investigation from Phoenix’s alternative weekly and occasional mentions since then, the addiction back-story — including ample questions about what John McCain knew, when he knew it and questions over whether he was complicit in the cover-up — has gone largely untold. Until now.
Tom Gosinski, a former employee of the medical-aid charity Cindy McCain used as personal supplier of Percocet and Vicodin, is speaking out publicly for the first time.
On Wednesday, Gosinski sat down with RAW STORY and other outlets to tell his story and distribute copies of his personal journal from his time with the American Voluntary Medical Team in the last half of 1992, where he voiced ever more acute concerns and frustrations over McCain’s drug use and its impact on her mood and job performance.
“My journal wasn’t to trash Cindy or anything,” he says. “My journal was kept b/c I came in contact w/ so many people. It was a way of keeping an ongoing biography of all the people I met, so I could refer back to it.”
He says he can’t buy the official McCain camp line that Cindy’s drug abuse was kept from her husband, he saw and heard too much for any of their stories to make sense — like the time Cindy was allegedly taken to the hospital after an overdose and John rushed in to berate the doctors and nurses there before moving Cindy to their secluded Sedona ranch. Then there were the Hensley family interventions and the fact that Cindy’s drug abuse came to be something of an open secret among employees of the charity.
“I have always wondered why John McCain has done nothing to fix the problem,” Gosinski wrote on July 27, 1992. “He must either not see that a problem exists or does not choose to do anything about it.”
Less than a month later, Gosinski was clearer about McCain’s knowledge of his wife’s problem: “John McCain has known about it for some time,” he wrote on Aug. 14.
Read this great story at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Whistleblower_breaks_15year_silence_to_allege_0911.html
**FINALLY — something is in print (other than the “OFFICIAL” statements) — and it is a sad, fascinating read. I still can’t believe that McInsane as well as many other repukes get a pass with the media while Dems have to respond to what THEY WROTE AS KINDERGARTENERS!!!
September 11th, 2008 at 9:32 amsatirev Says:
How did we squander so purposely the incredible moment of unity within this country along with the outpouring of support from the rest of the world following this tragedy?
Just ask George Bush.
You know why? Because the outpouring of support was bringin people to the realization that we are “ALL IN THIS TOGETHER” and that LIBERAL sentiment COULD NOT BE ALLOWED to permeate the country. The same reason that 9/11 has not been enacted as a day of Remembering the VOLUTEERS. It should be Volunteer day in America. Every firehouse, and ambulance corps, or The Community worker down the block should have their efforts exhalted and put up on a pedastal for the children to emulate. BUT, no we got the order to “Go shopping.”
September 11th, 2008 at 9:34 amHow disgusting is dinkledoofus? I can only imagine the only way this POS ends up with a legacy is it he becomes a perpetual human organ donar/factory. Hooked up to machines to have his brain removed body just producing organs for others. But, then again, this would perpetuate his DNA, so Nahhh
Always ask yourself: who profits from a crime?
9/11 was the crime.
Who profited?
US Military, Isreal, Pakistan, Wall Street.
Not the rag-tag 19 Muslims with boxcutters.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:35 amThe New York Times writes that the legal basis for the operations remain “unclear,” and the Pakistani army has said it “would defend the country’s sovereignty ‘at all costs.”
Wait a minute. The right was all over Obama for saying he would “invade” Pakistan (even though that is not what he said). So now the Bush Crime Family is going to invade Pakistan.
There is a very easy way to get the help of the Pakistani government. Tell them that if they want to continue to receive the billions of dollars of “aid” we send them yearly, they will have to help us go after Osama. It never made any sense that we were giving them obscene amounts of money to “help us in the war on terror” when they were harboring Osama.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:36 amRep. McDermott signs on to impeachment
Congressman Jim McDermott, representing Washington’s 7th district, stood up on the House floor to give his official support to efforts to impeach President Bush.
Video and transcript of his remarks appear below. The video was broadcast on C-SPAN on the morning of September 9, 2008.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rep._McDermott_signs_onto_impeach_impeachment_0909.html
**Are you listening Nancy?? You’ll be next if Cindy doesn’t win in November.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:38 amMcCain will also be in Shanksville, PA,…
any bets on whether he will include a little politicking while there?
September 11th, 2008 at 9:40 amInvestigators say the U.S. government has wasted nearly $1 billion in the recovery effort.
Well, that’s what happens when you give out no-bid contracts to FOB’s. I certainly hope that President Obama will do away with this “no-bid” contract scheme. That is NOT how I want my tax dollars wasted.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:40 amAnd the beat goes on Says:
Rep. McDermott signs on to impeachment
With two months until the election, this seems more like a political manuver, than a heart-felt epiphany.
Where was he the last few years?
September 11th, 2008 at 9:43 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
Waitaminnit — haven’t the Republicans been pounding Obama for a similar stance? In April 2007, Obama said, “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
When I served there were quite a few “under the radar” operations. Sadly it has taken Bush 7 years to use Special Forces to move in on the REAL Al Qaeda, while being distracted by something shiny ( OIL ) in Iraq.
This is something Special Forces ( Rangers, Seals, Green Berets ) do the best, move in take out a hostile target and then slip away. This plus international police efforts is what we should have been doing all along since 9/11, hell since the Cole and Embassy bombings actually, not illegally invading Iraq and getting our service men and women killed for a pack of damn lies.
But Bushco along with the rest of the Republinuts have been more interested in using 9/11 for political gain rather than actually finishing off Al Qaeda, so he can run his perpetual “War on Terra”.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:43 amKay Says:
9/11 was the crime.
Who profited?
September 11th, 2008 at 9:35 am
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Osama bin Laden and his Saudi backers got $120/barrel oil out of it. They profited quite handsomely.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:45 amkaty Says
September 11th, 2008 at 9:40 am
McCain will also be in Shanksville, PA,…
any bets on whether he will include a little politicking while there?
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Are you kidding? A photo-op in a swing state? He’s going to exploit it for all it’s worth.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:45 ambarfly Says
September 11th, 2008 at 9:43 am
With two months until the election, this seems more like a political manuver, than a heart-felt epiphany.
Where was he the last few years?
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I, too, wish McDermott had been arm in arm with Kucinich when the latter was fighting the battle single-handedly. But better late than never. This still puts McDermott head and shoulders above Pelosi when it comes to doing what’s right.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:49 ammissmolly said:
Waitaminnit — haven’t the Republicans been pounding Obama for a similar stance? In April 2007, Obama said, “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
No missmolly, it’s different. They are not waiting for “actionable intelligence”, they are just going in anyway.
BTW, we seem to be on the same wavelength this morning.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:50 amAre you kidding? A photo-op in a swing state? He’s going to exploit it for all it’s worth.
With plenty of “thumbs-ups” for the crowd, which highlights his not being able to raise his hands above his head. I think his political advisors have told him to frequently make these gestures, because it visually reminds folk of his POW sacrifice.
Now that’s cynical…
September 11th, 2008 at 9:52 amkaty Says:
McCain will also be in Shanksville, PA,…
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Shanks-ville? How appropriate…
September 11th, 2008 at 9:55 amRe: Attacks on 9/11 -During the replay this morning, Andrea Mitchell commented she had spoken to high officials and “there had been no warning of this attack coming.”
Then we find out there HAD been a warning the bush did nothing about.
As Keith Olberman commented last night, the repubs like to say they have prevented more attacks, why aren’t they accountable for the most horrendous attack on 9/11?
And once more, 3 times Osama has been in our sights and 3 times bush/cheney allowed him live.
When will someone hold these war criminals, bush/cheney accountable ?
September 11th, 2008 at 9:55 amBravo DRxJ! Shiloh means “house of peace.” Yet, it was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
I pray for America to be a country of peace. BushCo selected Barabus over Jesus repeatedly in his term in office.
Man’s inhumanity to man, led by a pathological human…
September 11th, 2008 at 9:56 amWe’ve got Russian bombers landing in Venezuela and also this:
‘Bolivian President Evo Morales ordered the expulsion Wednesday of the U.S. ambassador to his country, accusing him of fostering divisions in the deeply fractured Andean nation.’
September 11th, 2008 at 9:57 amAnd the beat goes on Says:
Whistleblower breaks 15-year silence to allege McCain hid wife’s drug abuse
For a little more background on this and a very thorough bio of John McBush, read this:
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/848709
September 11th, 2008 at 9:59 am#24
September 11th, 2008 at 10:02 amI was just going to post the same link —
Do you think the msm will even think of mentioning this??
Obviously, that is rhetorical because we know they won’t.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Whistleblower_breaks_15year_silence_to_allege_0911.html
Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
The New York Times writes that the legal basis for the operations remain “unclear,” and the Pakistani army has said it “would defend the country’s sovereignty ‘at all costs.”
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Lovely… and Pakistan DOES have nuclear weapons…
Meanwhile, back in the Western hemisphere…
(In the Ny Times)
Venezuela: Russian Bombers Arrive for an Exercise
Two Russian Tupolev bombers arrived in Venezuela For training exercises with the Venezuelan military. The bombers are TU-160s, also known as Blackjacks. They arrived ahead of joint naval maneuvers planned for this year and amid tension between Russia and Western nations over NATO naval exercises in the Black Sea.
Said Chavez, “The days of Yankee hegemony are over…”
September 11th, 2008 at 10:03 ammary’s link says:
“Ambassador Philip S. Goldberg, a veteran diplomat who has served more than two years in La Paz, Bolivia’s administrative capital, was declared persona non grata and will have to leave the country, probably within 48 to 72 hours.
“We don’t want people who are separatists, who foment divisions, who conspire against unity,” Morales said, referring to Goldberg.”
Can we do that here too? Oh, Pretty please.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:03 amIf the questions surrounding Cindy, Sarah and John had been given a fraction of the scrutiny given to Obama for far less reason to investigate — this race would be over.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:05 amHmm — that’s probably why there is no scrutiny — a horse race, even a fixed one, is more exciting.
mary Says:
‘Bolivian President Evo Morales ordered the expulsion Wednesday of the U.S. ambassador to his country, accusing him of fostering divisions in the deeply fractured Andean nation.’
September 11th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Wow – I dodn’t realize how bad things were getting there. I thought the situation had calmed down since the Santa Cruz referendum:
September 11th, 2008 at 10:05 am
mary, do you wonder why any country wants American representatives there ? mccain/bush are war mongers and if they are allowed to continue we will be barred from every country even if we pay them. Which we won’t because we will be bankrupt.
America is the neighbor that has junk and trash in their yard with no respect for the neighbors.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:05 amPromote Peace Says:
Bush is the warmonger here.
Thanks for reminding us.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:07 amIncoming troll at #43…
September 11th, 2008 at 10:07 amKay Says:
“Unless we re-investigate the day America attacked itself, we will continue down this dark, dark road. Bush and Cheney didn’t even want to investigate this.”
Kay, good morning and the best to my fellow daily posters on this solemn anniversary. As a proud New Yorker who witnessed the attacks first hand and feel contempt to this day over the same concerns that Kay raised this morning I would like to offer a link to all registered voters from New York City:
http://nyc911initiative.org/
It is a grass roots effort to submit a ballot initiative to the NY City Council for an independent investigation into the tragic events seven years ago. So if you are registered in NYC please take a minute to check it out and sign the petition. If you are not a registered voter in NYC they can still use your support. I’m not one to promote outside causes on this blog, but in memory of friends and family lost or forever changed on that day please forgive my shilling, but it is important.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:12 amPromote Peace Says:
Good morning, P.
All the Bush rhetoric comes home to roost, eh?
September 11th, 2008 at 10:12 amWhile McIIIrd is enjoying his post convention, pitbull bounce, here’s an interesting electoral ana!asis site that shows he’s falled 17 electoral votes since before both conventions.
McCain’s Post-Convention “Surge”
September 11th, 2008 at 10:12 amMr. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, asked that any “inappropriate windfall payments” to the chief executives and senior managers of those agencies be voided, in a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the new regulator for Fannie and Freddie.
Together, Daniel H. Mudd of Fannie Mae and Richard F. Syron of Freddie Mac are eligible for as much as $24 million in severance, retirement benefits and deferred compensation.
“Under no circumstances should the executives of these institutions earn a windfall at a time when the U.S. Treasury has taken unprecedented steps to rescue these companies with taxpayer resources,” Mr. Obama wrote.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:12 amfalled, fellen, sheesh, more coffee, please!
September 11th, 2008 at 10:13 amPromote Peace Says:
You fake “progressive” trolls are so easy to spot. Grow the hell up you childish f_ckwit.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:15 amPromote Peace Says:
Putin believes in Peace. The Russian bombers are in Venezuela to ensure peace. It’s to prevent American aggression.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:09 am
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You’re not fooling anyone, Trajan.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:15 amDRxJ, just read your post. Beautiful.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:17 amHave a peaceful day.
See you on the ‘morrow.
barfly,
Yes, thank God Russia is strong again.
Well, Bush has shot our wad…
September 11th, 2008 at 10:17 amPromote Peace Says:
mary,
Who cares about Russian bombers in Venezuela. Seriously, it’s not our business. Let’s make peace with them and they’ll leave us slaon. Putin believes in peace. Bush is the warmonger here.
Umm, what? Who care about Russian bombers in Venezuela? Well I do for one! It’s not our business you say? Tell you what, you just keep your head buried in the ground and keep pretending that everything is hunky dory and I will do what I can to spread the information so that those who care about how our standing in the world is degrading before our eyes will know a little more of what’s going on.
Putin believes in peace? Wow, you really are deluded. Putin cares about Russia. While I do agree with you that Bush (and McCain) is a warmonger, to adopt the ‘black & white’ model of the world won’t get you very far.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:17 amSomehow PP reminds me of another P…
September 11th, 2008 at 10:17 amIf ya’ll are in the mood to fight w/ a troll, blessings…
Otherwise, let the flagging begin!
September 11th, 2008 at 10:19 amPatriot Acting – Wasn’t there a petition to Elliot Spitzer trying to get him to act on information that had been supressed ? I will always have a problem that the 9/11 Commission was so stacked with bush cronies, and info given was not even covered.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:19 amRUCerious Says:
Somehow PP reminds me of another P…
I say flag it out before its meth rant really kicks in.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:20 amOh hell, I got conned again by the stupid troll. He must really need some attention this morning I suppose. Pathetic.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:20 amI say flag it out before its meth rant really kicks in.
I play it like a game: typing as few characters as possible, to trigger him into wasting hundreds of keystrokes in reply.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:24 amAnd if you have to type more than two sentences to do it, you lose.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:25 amOBL is not included on the FBI’s website for the crimes of 9/11.
that’s odd.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:26 amFlags Away, PP!
September 11th, 2008 at 10:27 ambarfly Says:
I play it like a game: typing as few characters as possible, to trigger him into wasting hundreds of keystrokes in reply.
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You got the “hundreds of strokes” part right…
September 11th, 2008 at 10:28 amApparently the dedication of a memorial to the fallen at the Pentagon is funny.
After saying “we now dedicate this memorial”, Bush, Gates and Rumsfeld yucked it up. I’m watching on CSPAN.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:29 amOBL is not included on the FBI’s website for the crimes of 9/11.
Neither is Dickhead Cheney.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:30 amBush, Gates and Rumsfeld yucked it up.
I would give my career, my dog and left nut to slap that constant shit eating grin of Dumbya’s retarded face.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:31 amstateofthedivision Says:
Apparently the dedication of a memorial to the fallen at the Pentagon is funny.
After saying “we now dedicate this memorial”, Bush, Gates and Rumsfeld yucked it up. I’m watching on CSPAN.
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Well, they certainly seem to know the joke’s on us, the American people, huh?
September 11th, 2008 at 10:32 amKay Says:
OBL is not included on the FBI’s website for the crimes of 9/11.
that’s odd.
More drilling is not on McCain’s list of energy proposals.
That’s also odd.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:32 amBush has needed Osama bin Laden these past 8 years. This phony war on terror needed a “face”. And that “face” was OBL.
They needed to keep him on the run, so to speak.
OBL is probably golfing with Daddy Bush.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:33 amThe Bush Crime Family sure have high-profile recreactional sports buddies.
OBL is probably golfing with Daddy Bush.
Is Bill Clinton caddying?
September 11th, 2008 at 10:35 amDieNowForPeace Says:
Bush, Gates and Rumsfeld yucked it up.
I would give my career, my dog and left nut to slap…
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Aww, Shi’ite… I’d gladly give both Gate’s AND Rumsfled’s left nuts, and Anne Coulter’s too, for that chance… ‘n the right ones too, seeing as NONE of them ever use ‘em the way God intended…
September 11th, 2008 at 10:36 amPromote Peace Says:
Trajan, get back to babbling to yourself on your stalk site.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:36 amBin Laden = Goldstein
September 11th, 2008 at 10:37 amSenator Kit Bond is on the Senate floor, claiming victory for Iraq, the very first bit of morning business – right after referencing 9/11.
Despicable.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:38 amTrajan, get back to babbling to yourself on your stalk site.
Doesn’t he have a Latin Kings rally to attend?
September 11th, 2008 at 10:40 am“Workers with professional degrees, such as doctors and lawyers, were the only educational group to see their inflation-adjusted earnings increase over the most recent economic expansion, adding to the concern that the economy has benefited higher-earning Americans at the expense of others.”
When noble professions become too much about money..
September 11th, 2008 at 10:41 amKit Bond is a truly reprehensible thug.
The man has no respect for the fallen of 9/11, which he’s now referenced 11 times and counting…
September 11th, 2008 at 10:41 amThe Saudis have been bush’s sugar daddies since his first failed oil venture, he can’t kill one of their relatives. So, 30,000 wounded and 4155 American soldiers later for what.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:43 amDoesn’t he have a Latin Kings rally to attend?
Yes, Chris Hansen is waiting for him to show. And, well, you know what happens next..
September 11th, 2008 at 10:45 amBond’s pushing the appropriation bill, on the backs of the 9/11 fallen.
A truly disgusting piece of human filth.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:46 amPromote Peace Says:
Can’t you even use a spell checker, dumbf_ck?
Yegads, this troll is pathetic.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:53 amGreat emphasis, everyone, that this has become a hopelessly politicized day. Genuine tributes are mostly drowned out to make way for what electoral impact the anniversary can have less than two months before that election.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:54 am**Thank you for this link. Sorry for the late reply butI list my karma, comments post on AOL plus it only showed comments through 37. Had to use IE which I hate. Anyway, WOW. I am speechless. I read the article and want to go back and look at the links. It just makes me sick that this has gone on SO LONG.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:54 amTrajan, stop being a blight on the United States of America.
I encourage you to do this by continuing your education. Go for an accredited correspondence diploma or get that GED.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:59 amI would like to see some accountability from the lowlifes who sold America these camps and trailers that were unusable. Ideally, we’d get the money back or the perpetrators would go to jail, but barring that can we have some publicity about who these companies are so we know that they are disaster profiteers?
September 11th, 2008 at 11:02 amI think it is also time we demand that politicians stop lying about why we were attacked. Please discuss the fact that the 9/11 Commission did not do its job. This video shows exactly what I am talking about: 9/11 and Wrong Policy, what the 9/11 Commission Report did to us. SEE VIDEO
September 11th, 2008 at 11:25 amI do give my heart to the fallen. I hope families and friends get the answers they deserve.
chimpy invade Pakistan (which you already did, probably under lies) get the US into more shit. you running around chasing ghost MUST STOP. The citizens of the US don’t want your invasions. Fool, we don’t want no more shit from you. WTF, chimpy.
No kidding Mullen. Didn’t Russia try for years to defeat the Afghanistan. And there’re neighbors. Why go to Afghanistan? We don’t Usama bin Laden. Why risk more lives for one man?
GTF out of there. More trouble in less than 4 mths.
ONE BILLION! No the healthcare for us and oil for them. How in the hell…drill, baby, drill? And the repug msm says the race is close or mcchimpy is ahead? LIES!
They wasted more than that on Katrina, LA. And petty people worried about people getting a measley $2K. It’s a cryin shame that chimpy refuses to bring LA back like he does for rich white folks.
I’m madder than a hockey mom with court orders.
See y’all on 11/4
Obama\Biden 08
September 11th, 2008 at 11:27 amMore than Ever
Great link representativepress.
“Osama wanted to punish the US for it’s support of Israel”.
So how long we gonna keep sucking Israel’s dick at our own peril?
What’s the goddamn point? Let the fcuking jews and arabs kill each other, we need to stay out cause they’re both full of shit.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:37 amthis was awesome last night:
Craig Ferguson, “If you don’t vote, you’re a moron”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRVQ4xwwmQ
shorter – “It’s your DUTY to vote!”
September 11th, 2008 at 11:37 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6tyHDUZZ00
All that can be said of this day mean’s little when considering the huge losses on 9/11 and all the day’s after…..Nothing I do will make a diffrence…I grieve.
.If it were possible I would ask for a DO OVER from April 1980 to today….I would give every breath I took to all those who can no longer breath and then I would wash away all the tear’s of the thousand’s grieving….No more war’s, only peace…No more hunger or sadness….On this day and every day I send..Peace, Blessings and Justice for all….
September 11th, 2008 at 11:52 ambarfly Says:
It remains to be seen how McCain will use 9/11 to further his campaign today. Not if he will use it, but when. I believe he agreed not to use 9/11 before his convention started, and we know he didn’t respect that promise, so it’s only a matter of time.
mcchimpy will use it like he uses women. his “speech” will be loaded with his bs.
I bet mcchimpy won’t use the year or use chimpy’s name. Bet.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:53 am“I’m John McCain and I approve this message”.
Send this to EVERYONE.
Quickly.
NOW.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:23 pmDieNowForPeace
Thanks for the link, that’s a powerful one and needs to be seen by all Americans.
One slight problem though, in that video McCain is obviously not a black person but that oher guy is…..
THAT is our problem. The racist bastards are looking for any excuse to not vote for a black. We have a ton of work to do in the next 2-1/2 months.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:42 pm