It's a scary Halloween this year! >:[

Happy Birthday Charlie!

get em Dave :)

You never know what kids are going to do :)

We'll miss you Mrs. Niemi!

God's Garden

God looked around his garden and he found an empty place,
He then looked down upon this earth and saw your tired face.
He put his arms around you and lifted you to rest.
God's Garden must be beautiful, He always takes the best.
He knew that you were suffering, He knew that you were in pain.
He knew that you would never get well on earth again.
He saw that the road was getting rough and the hills were hard to climb,
So he closed your weary eyelids and whispered
"PEACE BE THINE".
It broke our hearts to lose you, but you didn't go alone,
For parts of us went with you the day God called you home.

Here's the other poem The Dash

Bush only used his veto power only once, to ban stem cell research :( that alone makes him an idiot!

They want us out...

Rush is a jerk!

So is Glenn Beck... and a liar since Rush defended his comments before being forced to apologize

To think, if we had kept up with the research...

Val, it's not so Splenda..

and of course he doesn't watch TV

Crazy Republicans!

Is this woman serious? Rick Santorum Presidental material? Iraq would be worse now? I think everyone she wants to take to the polls would vote against her...

We need some Peace :) Then and Now!

Constantly running and getting nowhere?

Now Bush is claiming its never been "stay the course".. He is a LIAR!!!

Hypocracy should be a crime!

I should try for one of these :)

So what part of Facism don't we have?

14 Characteristics of Facism

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
author: Lawrence Britt
Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy.

The 14 characteristics are:


Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottoes, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.


Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.


Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.


Supremacy of the Military

Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.


Rampant Sexism

The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.


Controlled Mass Media

Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.


Obsession with National Security

Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.


Religion and Government are Intertwined

Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.


Corporate Power is Protected

The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.


Labor Power is Suppressed

Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed .


Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts

Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.


Obsession with Crime and Punishment

Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.


Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.


Fraudulent Elections

Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

Let's put it in perspective...

Why Air America Matters
by Thom Hartmann

There are times when doing the profitable thing is also doing the right thing.

That's certainly what Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch thought when they lost an average of $90 million a year for about five years before the Fox News Channel became profitable. It's what Reverend Moon believes, as his Washington Times newspaper lost hundreds of millions of dollars and, according to some reports, even today continues to lose money. And its what the people who have made Air America Radio possible - names you probably wouldn't recognize because they've invested millions of their own money but don't seek the limelight - believe.

Each of these endeavors hit nail-biting times.

Is History repeating itself?

Talk about a wave pool :)

Val, are you sure you want to leave NY?

Earthquake!!!

Get ready for some negative ads

I should get Bambu to do this :)

I'm sick of it all!!!

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

I haven't posted a movie before, but this one shows such a different view than what is being reported in this country :(

Heckof a job Bushie!

Wednesday, 3 April, 2002

US grants N Korea nuclear funds

The US Government has announced that it will release $95 million to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused.

Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built.

In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors.

President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national security interests of the United States".

North Korea has repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the agreement in recent weeks. It has been angered by President Bush's accusation that Pyongyang was part of an "axis of evil" producing weapons of mass destruction. This annoyance was compounded by Washington's decision to withhold this year's certification that North Korea is keeping its side of the Agreed Framework.

It has systematically refused to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors into its nuclear facility at the Yongbyon research base north of the capital.

Pyongyang has justified its refusals by pointing out that the reactors are way behind schedule. They were originally expected to have been completed next year, but now construction is not expected to even begin until August.

Another issue is the different interpretations of the inspections' timing. According to the Framework, North Korea should be fully compliant with IAEA safeguards when "a significant proportion" of the project is completed.

The builders say that will be around May 2005, and given the inspections will take at least three years, this means that North Korea should start admitting inspectors now. But Pyongyang believes that they should only allow the inspections to start, rather than finish, by that date.

The head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, a critic of the Agreed Framework, has warned that even when the new reactors are completed they may not be tamper-proof.

"These reactors are like all reactors, They have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we're trying to prevent it acquiring," Henry Sokolski told the Far Eastern Economic Review.

BBC Article

Bush is getting advice from Kissenger?! Explains a lot!!

"Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world. "
Henry Kissinger


"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence...It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The on thing every man fears is the unknown.When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by the World Government."

--- Dr. Henry Kissinger, Nixon's Secretary of State, addressing the Bilderberger Conference, Evian, France (1991)

Bulkhead Sundays start today Charlie!!!

Presidental Words...

"It is better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

The scandal continues...

Marching in a Gay Rights Parade is not the same as supporting Pedophillia... What part of Gay Rights doesn't he get?

Nancy Pelosi is from San Francisco where many of her constituents are gay... Is Pat Buchanan saying that politicians cannot be in parades that support gay rights just because the parade includes other groups that are not supported like NAMBLA?




And of course no one mentions other pedophilia story like the one involving the conservative Washington Times paper...

"A federal judge yesterday ordered a former human resources director for The Washington Times to be held without bail while a grand jury investigates charges that he tried to entice a minor on the Internet.

U.S. Magistrate Deborah A. Robinson yesterday rejected a $50,000 bond request for Randall Casseday, 53, who has been confined in the D.C. Jail since his arrest Sept. 26."

at least that guy is in jail.. the big question is why is Foley not in jail?

The costs of Globalization

"Africa has long been a dumping ground for all sorts of things the developed world has no use for. “This is the underbelly of globalization,” said Jim Puckett, an activist at the Basel Action Network, an environmental group that fights toxic waste dumping. “Environmental regulations in the north have made disposing of waste expensive, so corporations look south.”

Read the sad story here

I think the Republicans are making it worse :(

They set up a 1-800 number! Let me quess, that's heck-of-a-job Foley new gig :(

Steven Colbert's Green Screen Challange

The kids are pretty creative when given a green screen :)

It doesn't matter if the page is a male or female.. it's wrong!

So I guess the love of boys goes way back!

I wonder if Foley was in on this "Tour" of the White House.. too bad they don't give names.. but they are Bush Administration officials and other Republicans

How did the "liberal" media miss this story!

I wonder if the President was part of the "Midnight Tour"

This report says so

Thomas, Matt Drudge is a sicko!

I can't believe he'd defend a pevert and blame the kids.. doesn't he know these kids are young republicans and many didn't say anything for fear of losing their jobs and future employment. One of the page's emails to a fellow staffer said that Foley's emails were "Sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick " and "Well. It's late and I have freaked out enough tonight, lol. I still haven't emailed him back, and I don't think I will for a while, if ever. What do you think about it all??" Oh yeah.. the kids a beast

Here's what Drudge said:

"And if anything, these kids are less innocent — these 16 and 17 year-old beasts…and I've seen what they're doing on YouTube and I've seen what they're doing all over the internet — oh yeah — you just have to tune into any part of their pop culture. You're not going to tell me these are innocent babies. Have you read the transcripts that ABC posted going into the weekend of these instant messages, back and forth? The kids are egging the Congressman on! The kids are trying to get this out of him. We haven't got the whole story on this."

"You could say "well Drudge, it's abuse of power, a congressman abusing these impressionable, young 17 year-old beasts, talking about their sex lives with a grown man, on the internet." Because you have to remember, those of us who have seen some of the transcripts of these nasty instant messages. This was two ways, ladies and gentlemen. These kids were playing Foley for everything he was worth. Oh yeah. Oh, I haven't…they were talking about how many times they'd masturbated, how many times they'd done it with their girlfriends this weekend…all these things and these "innocent children." And this "poor" congressman sitting there typing, "oh am I going to get any," you know?"

Don't believe me? Here's the audio:

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The big irony is what he said during the Monica affair, at least she was of legal age, a willing participant and trying to keep the story hidden.. he sure changes his tune when it's a Republican scandel.. here's what Foley said at the time...

"It's vile," said Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach, "It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction." (1988 in response to the Clinton affair)

What an odd thing to say.. he must be referring to all his fellow Republican politicians that thew it "all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."

Here's a list

Medical malpractice to say the least!

Have you had enough?

He doesn't even know the anthem :(

Happy Birthday Grandpa!