It's Time

For some Campaignin'!

JibJab - Time for Some Campaignin'

Have Feith

Showing off his Nadlers

Fannie, Freddie, Indy

--House GOP leaders, defying Bush, called for hearings on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rescue, and said it shouldn't be attached to the housing package, which they call a bailout for irresponsible homeowners and unscrupulous lenders. In a statement, Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the changes "should not be coupled with a multibillion-dollar taxpayer-funded bailout bill that includes no reform or a multibillion-dollar permanent new government spending program."

The takeover of IndyMac came amid rampant speculation that the federal government would also have to take over lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which together stand behind almost half of the nation’s mortgage debt.

The Patriot Act (Is Bullshit)

P & T; BS! - B1G BR0THER




Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

I mpeach, You mpeach, We all mpeach

The Case for Impeachment (So Far)

Iran Sand Jam

Last week, after years of being threatened as part of the Axis of Evil, Iran showed its "claws" with a series of war games missile tests

The two sides had better use diplomacy rather than force, guns and weapons. However, when they (the US and Israel) show their teeth, Iran must also show its claws to them. But I am quite sure that no war will take place.

Canada is home to one of the largest oil sites on the planet, but it's a bit dirty, and more costly to process. But should Canada really being paying big bucks to allow Shell and other petroleum developers access to the oil sands?






Over the next several days, Sweden is holding a record breaking jazz festival. In anticipation of the Stockholm Jazz Festival on Wednesday, a "marathon jazz improvisation" began Friday in an effort to log the Guinness World Record for the world's longest jam session.

Check out the jam while it's happening!

Living in Terror

These brave Iraqi women describe some of the horrors of being Alive in Baghdad:

being afraid to go to the market, to school; seeing neighbors and friends kidnapped before their eyes only to turn up dead a week later; seeing their country dismembered before their eyes...




With all the numbers of dead, wounded, and displaced Iraqi citizens, it's easy to lose sight of the direct impact that each one of those individuals faces as their country is torn apart by war. The scale of suffering of the Iraqi people is unfathomable.

Conyers: Obstacle to Justice

Rep John Conyers still refuses to decide on whether to move along impeachment hearings against both President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney.

(OFF CAMERA): What is holding you back from beginning impeachment proceedings at this point?

CONYERS: Well, as I have said before, what's holding me back is that I haven't decided to do them. So I think there are enormous consequences involved in this decision, and that's why I haven't arrived at one yet. I don't plan to give any excuse. I haven't made up my mind. How can I tell you why I'm not going to impeachment? I came here, and the first thing out of my mouth was "I haven't decided."

In a January, 2008 letter to Conyers, Robert Wexler urged him to move along with impeachment hearings against Cheney. It's been 6 months: still nothing from Conyers.

In June, Congressman Kucinich offered 35 articles of impeachment against Bush. One month later, with still no action taken, he introduced another, single article of impeachment against Bush. Still nothing.

Biggest obstacle?

It's not the White House.
It's not the GOP.
It is the democrat "leadership," it is John Conyers.

Lob-Bomba

Lob Bombs New Biggest Worry for US in Baghdad



Support the Iraq Veterans Against the War

Not Hearing Hearings

Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) again introduced an article of impeachment against President Bush.




Karl Rove failed to appear before the judiciary committee, despite a subpoena.

FISA Raids

A Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.


A Declaration for our times


Right of the People


The guise of something so noble

Backwards dictatorships

Men who dared

Would we be celebrating if our Declaration of Independence had been edited by King George III?

Pretend Patriotism

Common Sense

Free Press

This is a War, make no mistake.



I love Naomi Klein
...and we are crazy out here

East Georgebushistan

Constitutional Compromise

Finest Moments

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency


Some Pre-ndependence Day News:


Barack and Jesus sitting in a tree, E-V-A-N-Gelizing


Emergency Room Fallure


Iraq sues for over $10 Billion Waste in oil for food


FBI Director on SC Gun Ruling: "I tend to believe weapons harm people and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."


What do you do when prices are up and demand is high? Stop importing!


Spy Harder Every Day


Contractor Incompetence: It's Electric!


Torture Training: Learn from the experts


All is forgiven, or at least ignored


Wiretipping Point


Bush Saves Bush


McGaydar