ThinkFast: October 10, 2008
ThinkFast: October 10, 2008
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman John Rockefeller (D-WV) said his panel “would investigate claims by two military eavesdroppers that they routinely listened in on private calls home from American military officers, aid workers and journalists stationed in Iraq.” Rockefeller called the accusations “extremely disturbing.”
Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has repeatedly denied that she dismissed Alaska’s public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, over her family’s dispute over one of his troopers, Michael Wooten. But the New York Times reports that “the commissioner and his aides were contacted about Mr. Wooten three dozen times over 19 months by the governor, her husband and seven administration officials.”
In an effort to preempt “a potentially embarrassing state ethics report” on Sarah Palin, McCain campaign officials released a report yesterday that they say “clears her of any wrongdoing” in the firing of her public safety commissioner. Spokesman Taylor Griffin said the campaign report “was based on public filings and Todd Palin’s affidavit.”
The watchdog group CREW has asked the Senate Ethics Committee to examine whether John McCain violated federal laws by failing to list gambling winnings on his Senate financial disclosure forms. The group says that, given McCain’s regular gambling habit, “it is nearly impossible to imagine that he never won over $200, the amount that triggers the reporting requirement.”
On the trail today: Barack Obama will hold a rally today in Chillicothe and Columbus, OH. Joe Biden will campaign in Springfield, MO. John McCain is in La Crosse, WI, and Sarah Palin is in Cincinnati, OH.
“Global stocks plummeted Friday after the rout a day earlier on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average lost more than 7 percent,” with European markets falling more than 10 percent at the opening. On Saturday, President Bush will meet with “finance ministers from the world’s richest countries at an unusual White House meeting to swap ideas” as to how to address the global credit crisis.
“The global financial crisis is turning into a bigger drain on the U.S. federal budget than experts estimated two weeks ago.” The 2009 budget deficit could be close to $2 trillion, according to David Greenlaw, Morgan Stanley’s chief economist. “Two weeks ago, budget analysts said the measures might push deficit to as much as $1.5 trillion.”
Despite declining prices, gas consumption across the U.S. has continued to fall as a result of the faltering economy. Last week, “gas demand was off 5.5% versus last year,” while the national average for gasoline fell to $3.40 a gallon.
Yesterday, President Bush created a special council “to guide the transition to a new administration, another step toward the end of Bush’s eight tumultuous years in office.” Under an executive order Bush signed, “a newly created Presidential Transition Coordinating Council will meet Wednesday to begin mapping out an orderly handoff” to Barack Obama or John McCain.
“An Iraqi member of Parliament from Moktada al-Sadr’s political movement was killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad” yesterday. The legislator, Saleh al-Ugaili, “was the second Iraqi member of Parliament to be killed in violence in 18 months.” Followers of Sadr, including his chief spokesman, are blaming the United States for the attack.
And finally: “There’s no doubt what Vladimir Putin’s favorite birthday present is this year — a rare Ussuri tiger cub,” the AP reports. Putin was seen on Russian state television affectionately petting the two-month-old female cub, who “weighs only about 20 pounds and sleeps in a wicker basket at Putin’s residence outside Moscow.” He has not yet settled on a name, but is leaning toward Mashenka or Milashka, and plans to find a home for her in a zoo or wildlife preserve. Fewer than 400 Ussuri tigers live in the wild.
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“In an effort to preempt “a potentially embarrassing state ethics report” on Sarah Palin, McCain campaign officials released a report yesterday that they say “clears her of any wrongdoing” in the firing of her public safety commissioner. Spokesman Taylor Griffin said the campaign report “was based on public filings and Todd Palin’s affidavit.”
October 10th, 2008 at 9:02 amWhew! I guess that’s all cleared up, then. We don’t need to talk about this anymore. She’s completely cleared.
It would be nearly impossible for anyone not to win at least 200, but somehow I think with McBungle, he might not have…
October 10th, 2008 at 9:05 am“it is nearly impossible to imagine that he never won over $200, the amount that triggers the reporting requirement.”
October 10th, 2008 at 9:08 amThis is funny. If he says he won more than $200, he cheated on his taxes. If he says he lost it all, he’s a reckless, incompetent gambler who will be gambling with the economy.
Rockefeller called the accusations “extremely disturbing.”
Disturbing enough to revisit the new FISA bill passed earlier this year?
Didn’t think so.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:11 amSenate Intelligence Committee Chairman John Rockefeller (D-WV) said his panel “would investigate claims by two military eavesdroppers that they routinely listened in on private calls home from American military officers, aid workers and journalists stationed in Iraq.” Rockefeller called the accusations “extremely disturbing.”
This is a joke. Rockefeller, the friend of telecoms, is going to “investigate.” The only thing he’s “extremely disturbed” by is that this information is coming out in public.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:16 amThousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out “Crowd Control” Naomi Wolf
AlterNet
October 8, 2008.
Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq, subduing “unruly individuals,” and the management of a national emergency. I am in Seattle and heard from the brother of one of the soldiers that they are engaged in exercises now. Amy Goodman reported that an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and tanks.
George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in the “War on Terror,” the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield.
He also led change to the 1807 Insurrection Act to give him far broader powers in the event of a loosely defined “insurrection” or many other “conditions” he has the power to identify. The Constitution allows the suspension of habeas corpus — habeas corpus prevents us from being seized by the state and held without trial — in the event of an “insurrection.” With his own army force now, his power to call a group of protesters or angry voters “insurgents” staging an “insurrection” is strengthened.
U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said to Congress, captured on C-Span and viewable on YouTube, that individual members of the House were threatened with martial law within a week if they did not pass the bailout bill:
“The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. … Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day and a couple of thousand on the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no.”
If this is true and Rep. Sherman is not delusional, I ask you to consider that if they are willing to threaten martial law now, it is foolish to assume they will never use that threat again. It is also foolish to trust in an orderly election process to resolve this threat. And why deploy the First Brigade? One thing the deployment accomplishes is to put teeth into such a threat.
I interviewed Vietnam veteran, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and patriot David Antoon for clarification:
“If the President directed the First Brigade to arrest Congress, what could stop him?”
“Nothing. Their only recourse is to cut off funding. The Congress would be at the mercy of military leaders to go to them and ask them not to obey illegal orders.”
“But these orders are now legal?’”
“Correct.”
“If the President directs the First Brigade to arrest a bunch of voters, what would stop him?”
“Nothing. It would end up in courts but the action would have been taken.”
“If the President directs the First Brigade to kill civilians, what would stop him?”
“Nothing.”
“What would prevent him from sending the First Brigade to arrest the editor of the Washington Post?”
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
“Nothing. He could do what he did in Iraq — send a tank down a street in Washington and fire a shell into the Washington Post as they did into Al Jazeera, and claim they were firing at something else.”
“What happens to members of the First Brigade who refuse to take up arms against U.S. citizens?”
“They’d probably be treated as deserters as in Iraq: arrested, detained and facing five years in prison. In Iraq a study by Ann Wright shows that deserters — reservists who refused to go back to Iraq — got longer sentences than war criminals.”
“Does Congress have any military of their own?”
“No. Congress has no direct control of any military units. The Governors have the National Guard but they report to the President in an emergency that he declares.”
“Who can arrest the President?”
“The Attorney General can arrest the President after he leaves or after impeachment.”
[Note: Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi has asserted it is possible for District Attorneys around the country to charge President Bush with murder if they represent districts where one or more military members who have been killed in Iraq formerly resided.]
“Given the danger do you advocate impeachment?”
“Yes. President Bush struck down Posse Comitatus — which has prevented, with a penalty of two years in prison, U.S. leaders since after the Civil War from sending military forces into our streets — with a ’signing statement.’ He should be impeached immediately in a bipartisan process to prevent the use of military forces and mercenary forces against U.S. citizens”
“Should Americans call on senior leaders in the Military to break publicly with this action and call on their own men and women to disobey these orders?”
“Every senior military officer’s loyalty should ultimately be to the Constitution. Every officer should publicly break with any illegal order, even from the President.”
“But if these are now legal. If they say, ‘Don’t obey the Commander in Chief,’ what happens to the military?”
“Perhaps they would be arrested and prosecuted as those who refuse to participate in the current illegal war. That’s what would be considered a coup.”
“But it’s a coup already.”
October 10th, 2008 at 9:18 amPalin’s self investigation report reeks. It has the same odor of Frances Townsend’s White House Lessons Learned report on Hurricane Katrina.
The fish rots from the head down.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:18 amJay Rockefeller has lost most of his credibility as an overseer of the intelligence community the last few years–expect a whitewash which will crush a few enlisted people, especially the whistleblowers. The responsibility lies with General Hayden and the overseers in Congress who allowed previous safeguards to be thrown out in every effort to please Cheney and Bush.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:19 amThe latest demand from the big money boys, guarantee all interbank lending.
Where does the handout stop?
October 10th, 2008 at 9:21 amThe Presidential Transition Committee will be charged with ensuring that none of the incriminating evidence is left for the next administration to find.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:24 am“In an effort to preempt “a potentially embarrassing state ethics report” on Sarah Palin, McCain campaign officials released a report yesterday that they say “clears her of any wrongdoing” in the firing of her public safety commissioner.”
“The McCain campaign says the investigation has become “muddied with innuendo, rumor and partisan politics.”"
They should know since they have injected the partisan politics and rumors. Who conducted the campaign’s investigation? Who did they call as witnesses? Can we see the testimony?
What a bunch of bull!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 9:27 am“Global stocks plummeted Friday after the rout a day earlier on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average lost more than 7 percent,” with European markets falling more than 10 percent at the opening. On Saturday, President Bush will meet with “finance ministers from the world’s richest countries at an unusual White House meeting to swap ideas” as to how to address the global credit crisis.
Bush, the anti-King Midas, in a doomed attempt to make himself seem relevant and redeem his legacy. Lots of eye-rolling is going to be going on in this meeting. Paulson, who I would assume is going to also be there, is also likely to be greeted with blank stares.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:27 amIt’s amazing that the investigated Sarah and Todd Palin have the balls to issue their own report of exoneration from all charges. They’ve taken direction from Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzalez and Dick Cheney.
The so-called media should get all over this, but they won’t.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:27 amPalin’s attorney, Thomas Van Flein: “Whenever anyone writes their own report, they’re filtering their data. And if you’ve already drawn your conclusion, you tend to filter it in a way to support that conclusion.”
Mr. Van Flein made this statement as support for why he released details of Todd Palin’s answers, but it speaks to the level of acceptance we ought to give the “McCain-Palin Report on Palin.”
October 10th, 2008 at 9:28 amMcStain is still hanging out in Wisconsin? Has anyone shown him the latest polling there? Or does he just like the cheese?
They can give up on Ohio, too. Meanwhile, Obama/Biden are taking on Missouri and gaining ground.
Can’t take anything for granted at this point, but I’m still hearing the faint sounds of the Fat Lady singing.
PEACE
October 10th, 2008 at 9:29 amok. i’ll stop now.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:29 amThe Palin report reminds me of the so-called non-biased approach of the 9/11 Commission Report.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:32 amWe’re watching the biggest heist in history unfold before our very eyes.
The Worst President Ever is incapable of the leadership required at this moment.
Congress has proved incapable of identifying & correcting the core problem.
Unscrupulous greedy financial sector rubes have made a fortune on other people’s hard earned savings. Greed has red lined our economy, but Bush, Paulson & corporate contributors are seeing an opportunity to literally rape the financial markets.
Is this the October surprise, or is this just the ‘panic button’ they needed to initiate martial law?
We’ll know soon enough. I’m less worried about my 401K than I am about our Country.
‘Country First’…then we’ll take whatever you have left’
October 10th, 2008 at 9:34 amMcStain is still hanging out in Wisconsin? Has anyone shown him the latest polling there? Or does he just like the cheese?
They probably have craps tables in Wisconsin casinos. At least, that’s my “bet”.
Todd and Failin’ Palin clear themselves of all wrong-doing.
“The defense rests.” Now, bring on the prosecution’s closing argument.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:36 amMcCain campaign officials released a report yesterday that they say “clears her of any wrongdoing” in the firing of her public safety commissioner.
Well, they’ve certainly eased my mind.
She’s guilty as hell!
October 10th, 2008 at 9:38 amfrom Naomi Wolf :Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah “Evita” Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.
You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand “Palin Power.” A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections — but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control. Remember, Russia has Presidents; Russia holds elections. Dictators and gangs of thugs all over the world hold elections. It means nothing. When a cabal has seized power you can have elections and even presidents, but you don’t have freedom.
I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites (”the heart of America is on display”) and realized Bush’s speechwriters were writing her — not McCain’s — speeches. I heard her tell George Bush’s lies — not McCain’s — to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners — this is Rove-Cheney’s enthusiastic S and M, not McCain’s, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture. I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all the women in the Bush orbit — but who does not bother to style Cindy McCain.
Then I saw and heard more. Palin is embracing lawlessness in defying Alaskan Legislature subpoenas — this is what Rove-Cheney, and not McCain, believe in doing. She uses mafia tactics against critics, like the police commissioner who was railroaded for opposing handguns in Alaskan battered women’s shelters — Rove’s style, not McCain’s. I realized what I was seeing.
Reports confirmed my suspicions: Palin, not McCain, is the FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal. The strategy became clear. Time magazine reported that Rove is “dialed in” to the McCain campaign. Rove’s protege Steve Schmidt is now campaign manager. And Politico reported that Rove was heavily involved in McCain’s vice presidential selection. Finally a new report shows that there are dozens of Bush and Rove operatives surrounding Sarah Palin and orchestrating her every move.
What’s the plan? It is this. McCain doesn’t matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. If McCain-Palin get in, this will be the last true American election. She will be working for Halliburton, KBR, Rove and Cheney into the foreseeable future — for a decade perhaps — a puppet “president” for the same people who have plundered our treasure, are now holding the US economy hostage and who murdered four thousand brave young men and women in a way of choice and lies.
How, you may ask, can I assert this? How can I argue, as I now do, that there is actually a war being ramped up against US citizens and our democracy and that Sarah Palin is the figurehead and muse for that war?
Look at the RNC. This is supposed to be McCain’s America. But you see the unmistakable theatre of Rove’s S and M imagery — and you see stages eight, nine and ten of the steps to a dictatorship as I outlined them in The End of America. Preemptive arrest? Abusive arrest? “Newly released footage, which was buried to avoid confiscation, shows riot cops arresting and abusing a giant group of people for nothing.”
Journalists were arrested — for reporting. Amy Goodman and ABC producers were arrested. Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake and others were forced to lie face down as armed agents tied their hands behind their backs. The riot police wore the black S&M gear of the Rovian fantasy life and carried the four foot batons cops carry in North Korea. All this is not John McCain’s imagery or strategy: it is Karl Rove’s.
In McCain-Palin’s America, citizens who are protesting are being charged as terrorists. This means that a violent war had been declared on American citizens. A well known reporter leaked to me on background that St Paul police had dressed as protesters and, dressed in Black — shades of the Blackshirts of 1920 — infiltrated protest groups. There were also phalanxes of men in black wearing balaclavas, linking arms and behaving menacingly — alleged “anarchists.” Let me tell you, I have been on the left for thirty years and you can’t get three lefties to wear the same t-shirt to a rally, let alone link arms and wear identical face masks: these are not our guys. Agent Provocateurs framing protesters and calling protest “terrorism” constitutes step ten of a police state:
“In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County Prosecutors have formally charged 8 alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism… [they] 7 1/2 years in prison under the terrorism enhancement charge which allows for a 50% increase in the maximum penalty.”
“Paid, confidential informants… infiltrated the RNCWC on behalf of law enforcement. They allege that members of the group sought to kidnap delegates to the RNC, assault police officers with firebombs and explosives, and sabotage airports in St. Paul. Evidence released to date does not corroborate these allegations with physical evidence or provide any other evidence for these allegations than the claims of the informants. Based on past abuses of such informants by law enforcement, the National Lawyers Guild is concerned that such police informants have incentives to lie and exaggerate threats of violence and to also act as provocateurs in raising and urging support for acts of violence.”
Under the Palin-Rove police state, you will see escalating infringements on your access to a free internet:
“Sarah Palin was baptized at Wasilla Assembly of God…Last Sunday our research team released a video, a ten-minute mini-documentary, focusing on the Wasilla Assemblies of God and the video seemed on the verge of a massive “viral” breakthrough when YouTube pulled it down, citing ‘inappropriate content’. At the point the video was censored by YouTube it had been viewed by almost 160,000 people. The short of it is that YouTube has censored a video documentary that appeared to be close to having an effect on a hard fought and contentious American presidential election…”
Under the coming Palin-Rove police state, you will witness the plans now underway to bring Iraqi troops to patrol the streets of our nation. This is not McCain’s fantasy: it is Rove’s and Cheney’s.
Under the Palin-Rove police state, there will be no further true elections. Mark Crispin Miller has done sensational and under-reported investigating t o establish that — as I warned — indeed the GOP staffers on the US Senate Judiciary Committee have been .
The evidence is also buried on the Website of the Majority House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
WASHINGTON — Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe. >From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications witho ut a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight — and with what tactics.
– “Senate panel’s GOP staff spied on Democrats” By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | January 22, 2004
Do you think that spying like this will ever end under a Palin-Rove regime? Dream on. If she and McCain are elected, then every single strategy memo and speech and debate prep note from every opposition candidate from now and on into forever will be read by the regime in power while it is still in the computers of the challengers.
Under the Palin-Rove police state, citizens will be targeted with state cyberterrorism. Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda, a former Reagan official, warned me three years ago that the Bush team went after a Republican who had crossed them through cyberstalking: they messed with his email, messed with his phones and I believe messed with his bank account — he became a cyber-pariah, unemployable and haunted. With modern technology, there really is less place to hide from the state than there was in East Germany in the Cold War era. I remember feeling a chill: of course. That is the wave of the future once we breach the protections around citizens of FISA and the fourth amendment. That way lies the abyss for us all.
Am I trying to scare you? I am. I am trying to scare you to death and ask you to scare your Republican and independent friends most of all. How do you know when it is war on citizens? When there are mass arrests, journalists are jailed, the opposition is infiltrated, rights are stripped and leaders start to ignore the rule of law.
Almost everyone I work with on projects related to this campaign for liberty has been experiencing computer harassment: emails are stripped, messages disappear. That’s not all: people’s bank accounts are being tampered with: wire transfers to banks vanish in midair. I personally keep opening bank accounts that are quickly corrupted by fraud. Money vanishes. Coworkers of mine have to keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected. And most disturbingly to me personally is the mail tampering I have both heard of and experienced firsthand. My tax returns vanished from my mailbox. All my larger envelopes arrive ripped straight open apparently by hand. When I show the postman, he says “That’s impossible.” Horrifyingly to me is the impact on my family. My childrens’ report cards are returned again and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back; and my daughters many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one arrived. Try explaining that to a smart thirteen year old. Try explaining it in a way that still makes her feel secure and comfortable.
I am not telling you this because it’s about my life. I am telling you this because it is about your life — whoever you are, Conservative or Liberal, independent or evangelical. Your politics will not protect you in a police state. History shows that nothing protects you in a police state. This is not about my fear and anxiety: it is about what awaits you and everyone you love unless you see this for what it is:
Scharansky divided nations into “fear societies” and “free societies.” Make no mistake: Sarah “Evita” Palin is Rove and Cheney’s cosmetic rebranding of their fascist push: she will help to establish a true and irreversible “fear society” in this once free once proud nation. For God’s sake, do not let her; do not let them.
Naomi Wolf is the author of ‘The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot’ (Chelsea Green, 2007).
October 10th, 2008 at 9:39 amIf Alaska succeeds from the United States, wouldn’t Sarah Palin be disqualified as a VP candidate? The AIP is still promoting succession and they want to place this succession item on the ballot. Someone needs to ask Palin what she would do if AIP is successful in its mission to become the independent nation of Alaska.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:45 amas an aside:
this morning while I was watching the local news — there was a blip of the Chymp (all any of us can take anyways) — and he’s sitting there- normally I lunge for the remote to mute it) — I wanted to listen. I swear to God this was slurring his words.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:47 amTHIS MAN SEEMED DRUNK!!!!
(oops!)
I swear to God he was slurring his words.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:49 amI swear to God he was slurring his words.
It must really suck to be GDumbya these days. His complete and utter failure is exposed for all to see. Poppy can’t save him; Poppy’s cronies can’t bail him out. He has done their bidding in bankrupting the country and setting us all up for the fleecing of our lives but they have abandoned him to take the fall in a very public and humiliating way.
He is and always has been an active alcoholic. Why would anyone think that he wasn’t drinking now during this most stressful period?
October 10th, 2008 at 10:02 amThe National Republican Congressional Committee, trailing its Democratic counterpart considerably in cash on hand, has secured an $8 million loan to spend on House races during the last few weeks of the campaign, according to sources.
The NRCC reported $14.4 million in cash on hand as of Aug. 31, compared to $54 million in the bank for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. As it did last cycle, the NRCC is procuring its loan from Wachovia Bank, sources confirmed.
So, the taxpayer is now financing the RNCC?
October 10th, 2008 at 10:16 amLast night I had a hard time going to sleep. I usually go right off to sleep. I was thinking about the past 8 years. 9/11. Iraq. Stolen Elections. Dumbing down of society. Financial crisis. Is this all part of a Master Plan? Is Martial Law really in the works? Will there really be an election? Maybe this financial crisis isn’t the ‘October surprise’?
no wonder I only got 4 hrs sleep.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:18 amtom: “It must really suck to be GDumbya these days”
But he’s still got his government pension, government health care. a (1-3 million dollar?) ranch house. a check at the end of the year for $600,000 and presumably still has a few million socked away ($10 million?). So no it doesn’t suck to be him and besides anyone who doesn;t like him he hates and he likes hating people who don’t like him.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:18 amYes. Drunk from Diet pepsi.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:25 amLOL Kay, are you still drunk from last night!??! Just kidding. I like the Naomi Wolf quotes, she is trying to be loud about things and hopefully it will not play out as she sees it.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:26 amKay Says:
no wonder I only got 4 hrs sleep.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:18 am
That much…?
October 10th, 2008 at 10:26 amIt was 4 hrs. total but broken up.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:28 amcaffeine free.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:28 amDon’t believe in term limits?
October 10th, 2008 at 10:29 amExpect rockefeller to do his job?
Wonder why he just now heard about this, it’s been around for a couple of years.
Was he just ignoring it until he no longer could?
After reading the report from the McCain commission I think that Palin has gotten a bad rap in “troopergate”. I had thought she fired Monegan because he refused to fire her former brother-in-law, State Trooper Wooten after a messy divorce with her sister. Now, I know that she fired Monegan because of his complaints about her driving her nine month old child around in a car without a proper car seat. I think Governor Palin should be able to drive her kids around however she wants. Car seat, no car seat, seat belt, no seat belt, in the back of a pick-up truck, whatever. She is the Governor for Christ’s sake! The safety of her children should be no concern of ours, hers, or the Public Safety Commissioner.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:35 amMarie Says:
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So, the taxpayer is now financing the RNCC?
The taxpayers have been funding the RNCC for years. While they had control of Congress, they set up several phoney fronts as defense contractors (Wilkes, MZM, ect.) which funneled unknown millions of dolloars of taxpayer money to people like the “Dukestir” Cunningham, Jerry Lewis (R-CA), and the RNCC itself. Because of Gonzo’s firing of U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, this has never been fully investigated.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:37 amAfter reading The Shock Doctrine this summer, my jaw has dropped in realizing what we are witnessing today, and most people don’t see it yet.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:43 amHeh. I can’t help thinking that if things play out according to the worst case scenario…well, we libs may very well have the chance to show that we’re willing to die for our freedom and our country after all…
God, if you’re up there, please help us…
October 10th, 2008 at 10:44 amBush didn’t say how much worse things are than the week of September 15, when they rang the panic button.
October 10th, 2008 at 12:03 pmFran Townsend did tell the folks at the New America Foundation that al Qaeda would like to influence our upcoming elections.
Townsend reminds that Al Qaeda has linked attacks to political changes in Spain and Britain, though she stops short of saying that there may be an attack in the next few weeks. “Couple their understanding with geopolitics and their obvious intent to try to influence it with the current economic crisis.”
October 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pmYesterday, President Bush created a special council “to guide the transition to a new administration, another step toward the end of Bush’s eight tumultuous years in office.” Under an executive order Bush signed, “a newly created Presidential Transition Coordinating Council will meet Wednesday to begin mapping out an orderly handoff” to Barack Obama or John McCain.
Classic Chinese Fire Drill , if ever there was one ………..
October 10th, 2008 at 12:07 pmclusterphuckTim; FLAGGED!
October 10th, 2008 at 12:28 pmDid AK Palin’s report say, “I am not a crook.”?
October 10th, 2008 at 2:46 pmwhat sucks is only PART of the Troopergate report gets publicly released, what part of that report is kept secret is decided by a “comittee”, which im going to speculate is run by a majority of republicans.,.
can someone do a Freedom of Information request on this stuff?
October 10th, 2008 at 6:55 pm