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10-12-2008
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some interesting things to see/read.
I will give my opinions once i see a bit more from the other side....it *seems* pretty apparent that something big/bad is going to happen relatively soon.....its been a long time coming i guess, and the house of cards is pretty big right now.
Interview - Naomi Wolf - Give Me Liberty
Good thing to watch.
New York Times
Big Financiers Start Lobbying for Wider Aid
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/bu...=1&oref=slogin
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Even as policy makers worked on details of a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, Wall Street began looking for ways to profit from it.
Financial firms were lobbying to have all manner of troubled investments covered, not just those related to mortgages.
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From Michael Moore, pretty bias so just for an opinion.
MichaelMoore.com : The Rich Are Staging a Coup This Morning ...a message from Michael Moore
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Though no guns are being used, 300 million hostages are being taken. Make no mistake about it: After stealing a half trillion dollars to line the pockets of their war-profiteering backers for the past five years, after lining the pockets of their fellow oilmen to the tune of over a hundred billion dollars in just the last two years, Bush and his cronies -- who must soon vacate the White House -- are looting the U.S. Treasury of every dollar they can grab.
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10-12-2008
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And yet another that blames the President for congressional action. Do you not understand that the President cannot write or debate legislation in Congress? That he merely signs it when they are done with it? Long before it reached his desk it was passed in Congress by a vote of 253 to 168. If you want to point your finger at least try pointing it at the culprits responsible.
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10-12-2008
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And yet another that blames the President for congressional action. Do you not understand that the President cannot write or debate legislation in Congress? That he merely signs it when they are done with it? Long before it reached his desk it was passed in Congress by a vote of 253 to 168. If you want to point your finger at least try pointing it at the culprits responsible.
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That's right. And if you look at the vote in congress, only 34 of the minority Democrats voted in support of it as opposed to 219 of the majority Republicans, who were in lockstep with the Bush Administration, demonstrated by the fact that there hadn't been a single veto for the first six years of the Bush presidency while the Republicans controlled congress.
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 was hastily passed by congress in September prior to a congressional recess and signed auspiciously by Bush into law in October before the midterm election, which ended up in a transfer of power in congress, with a sign on his desk that read, "Protecting America." To me, the sign's perceived necessity was revealing of the controversial nature of the new law, and the importance of shaping public perception.
Yes, the Republican congress for passing the law, and the Republican Bush Administration for signing it, are responsible for the Military Commisions Act, and the USA Patriot Act for that matter, each of which represent diminishment of our civil liberties in my opinion. (Edit) In fact, according to Wiki, " Section 7 of the MCA was found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on 12 June 2008."
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10-12-2008
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That's right. And if you look at the vote in congress, only 34 of the minority Democrats voted in support of it as opposed to 219 of the majority Republican....
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I didn't say that Republicans were not mostly responsible, only that it was a congressional act as opposed to an act of the administration as implied by the OP. Congress currently has a lower approval rating that even the current moron....uh I mean President, but no one seems to want to point any fingers at Congress. Yes, Bush is bad but currently the houses of morons that represent us are even worse. Is there anything wrong with calling a spade a spade?
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I didn't say that Republicans were not mostly responsible, only that it was a congressional act as opposed to an act of the administration as implied by the OP.
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I know. I was just trying to present a broader picture in order to make sure it was clear who was behind that particular piece of legislation.
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Congress currently has a lower approval rating that even the current moron....uh I mean President, but no one seems to want to point any fingers at Congress. Yes, Bush is bad but currently the houses of morons that represent us are even worse. Is there anything wrong with calling a spade a spade?
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Not at all, I agree that it needs to be done, and that congress needs to be held accountable more often. In fact, our representives are really the one's we should be hounding on a regular basis if we are going to exercise our civic responsibilities. E-mail really makes this easy. Unfortunately, many people don't even know who their representitives are much less how to get a hold of them.
It should also be noted however that the approval rating of the last several congresses has been dismal, even before the Democrats regained the majority. For example The 109th Congress, which ended with the 2006 election, was particularly dismal from a legislative and corruption standpoint, and carried approval ratings in the mid to upper teens.
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It seems to me that people tend to prefer to believe what they want to be real or true, despite evidence to the contrary.
When what you believe is refuted by evidence, you are faced with a choice.
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Thanks for pointing that out.
Seems the new clone is just as bad at public speaking as the one in now. I really wonder how people see these people as safe honorable people, they are really quite scary what they come off as.
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10-13-2008
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Unfortunately, many people don't even know who their representitives are much less how to get a hold of them.
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The 'e'literate among us can use the Rep Finder on the U.S. House of Representatives website. All they need is their Zip+4 zipcode. I write my rep and my senators probably at least once a week or more.
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...If you want to deny that Granpappy Prescott Bush didn't have his hand in the Nazi cookie jars, then We'll simply disagree on that.
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Trying to prove conjectures that old and insubstantial is nearly impossible. I'm sure granpappy P. Bush did not intentionally and knowingly favor Hitler's plan to dominate Europe.
However, great-great-granpappy Ulysses Bush secretly funded the elitist social club in London that funneled money to lending libraries in Bosnia, which distributed radical anarchist literature, which was read by the assassin, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, who killed ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand, and triggered the beginning of World War I.
Personally speaking, I will NEVER forgive the Bush family for that. 
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10-13-2008
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anybody have any thoughts on the video above accusing bush of causing a *COUP* right now in the usa? if its real, i dont see why this is not BIG news!
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