tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post4007022553250149047..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: Impeach and Convict Bush and Cheney for High TreasonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-82698791345960129632007-06-21T19:48:00.000-07:002007-06-21T19:48:00.000-07:00Speaking about great personages, I just love this ...Speaking about great personages, I just love this recent quote from <A HREF="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17856.htm" REL="nofollow">Valdimir Putin</A>:<BR/><BR/><EM>"Am I a 'pure democrat'? (laughs) Of course I am, absolutely. The problem is that I’m all alone---the only one of my kind in the whole wide world. Just look at what's happening in North America, it's simply awful---torture, homeless people, Guantanamo, people detained without trial and investigation. Just look at what's happening in Europe---harsh treatment of demonstrators, rubber bullets and tear gas used first in one capital then in another, demonstrators killed on the streets….. I have no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died." </EM><BR/><BR/>Putin and Bush in the same room...how does Putin stop himself laughing? I guess he has a lifetime of Soviet practice behind him. Perhaps the US and Russia could do a straight swap, leader for leader. It would be a fantastic deal for the US (of course, there would need to be some serious sweeteners thrown the Russian way, no question, with an intelligent nation like that one accepting a lemon like George Jnr. Billion dollar bribes, perhaps? Offers of free vodka?...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-4105216566321514252007-06-21T09:15:00.000-07:002007-06-21T09:15:00.000-07:00enigma4ever said...wonderful blog you have here.....enigma4ever said...<BR/><BR/><I>wonderful blog you have here...special...</I><BR/><BR/>Thanks...and I enjoyed your <A HREF="http://plamegatetimeline.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Plamegate Timeline</A> and will add it to my "resources" links if that is OK. <BR/><BR/>SadButTrue, great Burke quote. Thanks, my friend. <BR/><BR/>Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/><I>Since this campaign began, several members of Congress have signed on as co-sponsors</I><BR/><BR/>Thanks for sharing that link.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-70749799139918821472007-06-21T08:11:00.000-07:002007-06-21T08:11:00.000-07:00Have you heard about HR 333? I urge you and your r...Have you heard about HR 333? I urge you and your readers to take a few minutes to look at:<BR/><BR/>http://www.usalone.com/cgi-bin/transparency.cgi?paper=1&qnum=pet45<BR/><BR/>It's a list of the 25 most recent comments made by real Americans participating in an online poll/letter-writing campaign concerning the impeachment charges recently filed against Vice President Cheney, which are now being evaluated by the House Judiciary Committee. Comments can be sent to elected representatives and local newspapers at your option. The participation page is at:<BR/><BR/>http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php<BR/><BR/>Since this campaign began, several members of Congress have signed on as co-sponsors, in part due to hearing from their constituents. Has yours? Make your voice heard, and let others know!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-85886563313332191872007-06-21T02:53:00.000-07:002007-06-21T02:53:00.000-07:00FuzzFlash sez...The Burke quote is a beauty,Sad. "...FuzzFlash sez...<BR/><BR/>The Burke quote is a beauty,Sad. <BR/><BR/>"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one......". <BR/><BR/>Oui, mon ami, we are all "known associates" here.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>enigma4ever,<BR/>if you'll permit me the liberty, ma'am, of a cut&paste from your blog bio:<BR/><BR/>"About Me<BR/>I am a heartbroken wandering refugee intuitive halfblind truthseeking scorched whistleblower mom nurse. I am a newsjunkie,research fiend.In many ways I am woman without a country right now. Most of my heroes are gone- MLK,Robert Kennedy,Ghandi, Marley,Lennon and now Jennings.The Bush Regime needs to come to an end."<BR/><BR/>You know, enigma, I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful association.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-75776631887744300182007-06-20T22:44:00.000-07:002007-06-20T22:44:00.000-07:00wonderful blog you have here...special...wonderful blog you have here...special...enigma4everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06589997090173140019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-18774519456539795152007-06-20T19:24:00.000-07:002007-06-20T19:24:00.000-07:00Michael Moore made one very cogent observation in ...Michael Moore made one very cogent observation in his book Stupid White Men. 'When a Republican runs against another Republican for public office, the Republican will always win.' (paraphrase) For some time now the corporate sponsors of the Republican party have had deep enough pockets to fund two campaigns at once. Often the Democratic and Republican nominees for Senate and Congressional seats have been nearly indistinguishable from one another on policy. There is only one political reality in America, the corporatocracy, and they fund both the right-wing Democratic Party and the extreme right-wing Republicans. The result is the death knell of democracy in America. The constitutional amendment against the idea of corporate personhood is a great idea Len. I just hope the barriers to such real meaningful recovery from the nightmare are not already too high.<BR/><BR/>"<I>When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.</I>"<BR/> -- Edmund BurkeSadButTruehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977090207448656065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-75754737207459556412007-06-20T19:14:00.000-07:002007-06-20T19:14:00.000-07:00re:>>>George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and>>>the gang s...re:<BR/>>>>George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and<BR/>>>>the gang subverted the<BR/>>>>Constitution to carry out a<BR/>>>>war of naked aggression, itself<BR/>>>>a war crime<BR/><BR/>Impeachment?<BR/>Ain't gonna happen with the gutless Dems in Congress.<BR/>Hell, I'd just be happy if the corporate mainstream media would simply tell the people that Bush/Cheney lied the nation into war.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-6310936185844317862007-06-20T05:03:00.000-07:002007-06-20T05:03:00.000-07:00Fuzz sez..."that Bush Sr puked on the Prime Minist...Fuzz sez...<BR/><BR/>"that Bush Sr puked on the Prime Minister of Japan." <BR/><BR/>Far less a faux-pas than his imbecile offspring spewing on The Constitution. If only we could fade this mob to black like the Sopranos. Surprisingly few folk would give a toss what happened to them after the credits had rolled. A vainglorious clan of minor historical speed-bumps on the way to les peuples saving the planet.<BR/><BR/>Today I'm an optimist. Tomorrow my children and yours will have to breathe the air. Fresh or otherwise.<BR/><BR/>benmerc, with you for the long haul.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-36938705718051677532007-06-19T22:55:00.000-07:002007-06-19T22:55:00.000-07:00An example of GOP thinking: "Deng [Xiaoping] asked...An example of GOP thinking: <BR/><BR/><I>"Deng [Xiaoping] asked Henry [Kissinger] why we were so shocked over Tiananmen when the Cultural Revolution was going on when we opened relations with the PRC. He pointed out that surely that was much worse. He had a point."<BR/><BR/> —Former First Lady Barbara Bush relating a November 1989 dinner conversation with Henry Kissinger who had just returned from China. In Barbara Bush: A Memoir. New York: Lisa Drew Books, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. </I><BR/><BR/>Kissenger was enamored of Deng, called him a "great man", one of the greatest in Chinese history. Kissinger boasted that Deng considered him a friend and took him to a restaurant in Beijing, albeit they were in a private room. Bush Sr., likewise, boasted about his "friendships" in China and about unknowingly eating "dog lip" in the Forbidden City. It was later, in Japan, that Bush Sr puked on the Prime Minister of Japan.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-64409803805159647712007-06-19T22:13:00.000-07:002007-06-19T22:13:00.000-07:00anonymous said...I personally don't play that game...anonymous said...<BR/><BR/><I>I personally don't play that game of the Dems having to to stay within the lines,</I><BR/><BR/>I've always hated that strategy. And the Democrats were doing it when there was no need to i.e, when they had clear majorities on a real positions. "Some" Democrats may have gained "some" center but at the loss of "some" of the very heart of the party. <BR/><BR/>I have a solution: 1) put an end to primary elections and replace them with a single general election based upon a "preference voting" system, something similar to the way in which coaches and/or teams are rated by AP, an "instant runnoff"; 2) put absolute spending limits on campaigns; 3) get corporations OUT of politics with an outright ban on corporate contributions and political advertising. Here is how that is done: <BR/><BR/>CORPORATIONS ARE NOT "PEOPLE" AND DO NOT HAVE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.<BR/><BR/>In fact, not being "people", corporations have no freakin' rights whatsoever. <BR/><BR/>I support a Constitutional Amendment to make that point clear. <BR/><BR/>jae, <BR/><BR/>sorry about the shock. I posted the video because, for too long, I was outraged about the lack of outrage when all Americans should have been outraged and screaming bloody murder. Tragcially, that's what our government has become --an murderous instrument of fascism i.e, the corporations that have sponsored and manipulate George W. Bush, a cold murderer and traitor. <BR/><BR/>Noticed that one of your fave books is "Lust for Life". I saw the movie version with Kirk Douglas when I was "small". I was appalled at the conditions in the Borinage and, later in the movie, impressed with the art. Irving Stone was gifted. He was able to bring Michelangelo and van Gogh to life in books and in movies. That is no small thing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-21079760116820555462007-06-19T18:50:00.000-07:002007-06-19T18:50:00.000-07:00Holy Cow, Len, putting that clip at the end there ...Holy Cow, Len, putting that clip at the end there really threw me for a loop. I've seen the pics before but it was because I knew where the link took me and I did some emotional readying. <BR/><BR/>It's just sickening what humans do to one another.jaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07885410214036985228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-16103519677354675412007-06-19T14:07:00.000-07:002007-06-19T14:07:00.000-07:00Well, compared to the bald face lies and revisioni...Well, compared to the bald face lies and revisionist spin that comes from every corner of the right, Moore is an angel when it comes to rhetoric. Not to mention he had the balls to stand up to this group right from the get go, pretty much hanging out there all alone...that was not an easy position to be in, just ask any that have been waxed by the right. Also, say what you want about him, of course he is not an clinical intellectual as many mentioned, nor has he tried to pawn himself off as such, his is of a broad base appeal.<BR/><BR/>I personally don't play that game of the Dems having to to stay within the lines, all the while the goppers are stomping around how ever and where ever they please, and as we know they like to please themselves much. Frankly that is part of the reason we have come to this point of being a second string political party. I am not advocating adopting the gop behavior, but at the same time, tip toeing around at this point is rather stupid.<BR/><BR/>They say Moore's new movie is well done, and he is hardly "in" it, so that should help those that have become annoyed at him. For the most part, he does his home work, and yeah, he pulls a few stunts, even in "Sicko" also, but they never really bothered me before, so I doubt I should criticize him now. <BR/><BR/>Moore is trying to penetrate many barriers and compete with mass media culture on several levels in order to get through to as many (even half thinking) Americans as possible. Fox actually gave "Sicko" a thumbs up....and you know what I don't give a shit what any right winger says about Mike Moore, then or now...fuck em...they are the ones destroying the planet, no one else. <BR/><BR/>benmercAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-47526342044324935642007-06-19T09:17:00.000-07:002007-06-19T09:17:00.000-07:00I didn't say he was a great person. I said he is d...I didn't say he was a great person. I said he is doing a great job. With the GOP in power, it is hard to exaggerate a fact. <BR/><BR/>I never bother to compare Noam Chomsky with anyone else. Nor Gore Vidal with anyone else. But that's not to say I don't have my favorite authors. I find Vidal an easier read than Chomsky. But then, again I found A.J. Ayer a good read while others find him completely incomprehensible. Between Ayer and Bronouski, I would choose Bronouski but that is not to say that Bronouski is a better writer. They are merely different. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, America was a showbiz nation. Not enough attention is given to the role of "showbbiz" in this nation's intellectual development, the impact of Vaudeville and Broadway on the waves of immigration. <BR/><BR/>There are some hints in "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow. He is most certainly among a handful of "intellectuals" who seem to have grasped the degree to which our culture and our intellectual life has been and continues to be influenced and shaped by showbiz.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-39792175541175595092007-06-19T08:40:00.000-07:002007-06-19T08:40:00.000-07:00@len hart: i wouldn't say micheal moore's a great ...@len hart: i wouldn't say micheal moore's a great person. if anything i would see him as a tool of the right to discredit the left.<BR/><BR/>unfortunately alot of his arguements are valid and right, and then he has to go that extra mile and exaggerate a fact, or use misinformation just to try and drive his point home, which instead drive his (and anyone with the same viewpoints) credibility down.<BR/><BR/>if you want a credable outlook on it all, i reccomend noam chomsky.<BR/><BR/>very educated man with very educated arguments instead of showbizz fluff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-37110855007538551322007-06-19T08:24:00.000-07:002007-06-19T08:24:00.000-07:00Welcome back, Fuzzflash...I am with you comrade. M...Welcome back, Fuzzflash...I am with you comrade. <BR/><BR/>Michael Moore deserves a lot of credit. That he is villified by the right wing means he's doing a great job. The right wing has screwed up a once great nation. They are vehement because they know they've screwed --big time --but will blame others for their catastrophic, monumental, epic failures. <BR/><BR/>Sadly, the US, as we knew it, may not survive the war that is waged on it daily by a demonic and delusional right wing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-16401239380867562882007-06-19T08:13:00.000-07:002007-06-19T08:13:00.000-07:00Fuzzflash sez....Yes, comrades, it's time the kid-...Fuzzflash sez....<BR/><BR/>Yes, comrades, it's time the kid-gloves came off. If Congress resists the will of the people, ie. Impeachment of BushCo, then it's high time we got on their cases. Give the bastards 24/7, well-organised, rolling static. Tens of thousands of us. It can't be that hard if Michael Moore can do it. He's been at it for 20 freakin' years. Time a mess of us followed his example.<BR/>Another 911 scenario and it "Goodnight Irene" for the last and greatest of human dreams. Unless, Nous Les Peuples, act now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com