Glad to see the blog problems appear to be solved. I have been saving lots of good articles over the last couple of days, that are really good.

Bush----Worst President in the History of the USA!

"The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong? A sweeping draft of history - distilled from scores of interviews - offers fresh insight into the roles of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and other key players.

January 20, 2001 After a disputed election and bitter recount battle in Florida whose outcome is effectively decided by the Supreme Court, George W. Bush is sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States. In foreign affairs he promises an approach that will depart from the perceived adventurism of his predecessor, Bill Clinton, in places such as Kosovo and Somalia. ("I think the United States must be humble," Bush said in a debate with his opponent, Al Gore.) In domestic affairs Bush pledges to cut taxes and improve education. He promises to govern as a "compassionate conservative" and to be "a uniter, not a divider." He comes into office with a $237 billion budget surplus.

http://www.truthout.org/123008T

Here is one example! Just one year:

Number Of U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq: 322.

- Number Of U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan: 151.

- Number Of Jobs Lost: 1.9 million.

- Number Of Banks Federal Government Now Owns Stock In: 206.

- Number Of Uninsured Americans: 47.5 million.

- Change In Housing Prices: declined 18 percent.

- Change In Health Insurance Premiums: increased 5 percent.

- Change In Number Of Delinquent Mortgages: increased 75 percent.

- Change In Use Of Food Stamps: increased 17 percent.

- Change In Dow Jones Industrial Average: declined 35 percent.

- Change In Bush Approval Rating: declined 9 percent to 29 percent.

Paul Krugman noted recently that the Bush administration's failings have often been obscured in the short-run because the White House was particularly effective at inventing an alternate reality that it then "impressed on the public." In 2008, however, despite its repeated attempts to wish it away, the reality of its domestic policy failures caught up with Bush administration and the nation.

Palin----The year's biggest Joke!!

Palin's 'Russia' quote tops list of memorables
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Digg Facebook Newsvine del.icio.us Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print Sun Dec 14, 4:49 pm ET AP – In this Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, is seen on stage during an election night …
Play Video Presidential Transition Video: Illinois governor: `I'm not going to quit' AP Play Video Presidential Transition Video: Obama fills out cabinet list Reuters Play Video Presidential Transition Video: 'Big Labor' Signal? FOX News NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Sarah Palin lost the election, but she's a winner to a connoisseur of quotations. The Republican vice presidential candidate and her comedic doppelganger, Tina Fey, took the top two spots in this year's list of most memorable quotes compiled by Fred R. Shapiro.

First place was "I can see Russia from my house!" spoken in satire of Palin's foreign policy credentials by Fey on "Saturday Night Live."

Palin actual quote was: "They're our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."

Palin also made the third annual list for her inability to name newspapers she reads. When questioned by CBS anchor Katie Couric, Palin said she reads "all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years."

Palin's quotes were pivotal, said Shapiro, associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at the Yale Law School who compiles the list.

"This quote helped shape the election results," he said of the Russia quote. "As it sank in the public realized this was someone really, really inexperienced and perhaps lacking in curiosity about the world."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081214/ap_on_re_us/quotes_of_the_year

Even the Iraqis now admitting he is the worst !

U.S.-installed Iraqi ex-PM says Bush "utter failure"

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50212820090103

If you were thinking of buying Coulter's new book for laughs, save your money. A group has found it is mostly all lies!!!! Just another lying Republican, who cannot tell the truth because it works out to make them look bad.

Group finds more than a dozen lies in Coulter's latest book

The progressive media watchdog Media Matters for America delivered a scathing 6,000-word rebuke to conservative superstar Ann Coulter, accusing her of lying on more than a dozen occasions in her new book, Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America.

Coulter has of late appeared to be something of a mockery of herself. Her support among conservatives has waned, though her prolific publishing prowess continues.

Among the slew of apparent lies in Coulter's book -- which Media Matters labels as "falsehoods," includes claims Coulter makes about Sen. John Kerry by the so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth; and assertion that Fox News has "never been caught promoting a fraud;" and that President-elect Barack Obama was referring to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin when he said, "you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig."

Perhaps among the more preposterous is Coulter's claim that Fox News has never been caught promoting a fraud. The group cites two glaring examples of Fox News missteps.

Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy once claimed that President-elect Obama was raised by a Muslim father as a Muslim and was educated in madrassa," an assertion that was patently false.

Doocy retracted the claim Jan. 19, 2007.

In 2004, Fox issued a retraction and apologized for a story in which political reporter Carl Cameron attributed quotes to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) in an effort to deride him over an alleged manicure.

In fact, a top Fox executive once emailed staff saying that stories that appeared on websites weren't de facto worthy of airing on Fox News.

Coulter is slated to promote Guilty on Jan. 6's Today Show.

Media Matters has catalogued at least thirteen major falsehoods Coulter makes in her book. Among them include (excerpts):

* Liberals' purported "praise[]" for hoaxers for staging hate crimes. Coulter claims that two black students who engaged in a hoax by hanging a black doll from a noose were "immediately praised" by "liberals," but the sources she cites do not support this claim.

* On Page 15, Coulter writes, "Fox News has never been caught promoting a fraud -- unlike CBS (Bush National Guard story), ABC (tobacco industry report), NBC (exploding GM trucks), CNN (Tailwind), and MSNBC (Keith Olbermann)." In fact, as Media Matters has documented, on several occasions since 2004, Fox News has issued a retraction and apology for airing a news report that repeated false information, one of which led Fox News' Vice President for News John Moody to reportedly warn staff in January 2007 that "seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC."

* Coulter advances several falsehoods about Kerry in defending the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an organization which spread numerous falsehoods and smears regarding Kerry's military record in the six months leading up to the 2004 presidential election.

* Coulter falsely claims that "the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth weren't forced to retract any part of their story. [Page 100]" In fact, the organization altered its website's account of the December 2, 1968, mission for which the U.S. Navy awarded Kerry his first Purple Heart three days after Media Matters noted that the account was inconsistent with that of the group's star witness -- retired Rear Admiral William L. Schachte Jr., who claims he was the commander on that mission.

* Coulter also suggests that the media ignored the allegations of the Swift Boat Veterans, writing, "The only way they could have gotten less attention would have been to be interviewed on Air America Radio." By the time the Swift Boat story had played out, CNN, chasing after ratings leader Fox News, found time to mention the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth --hereafter, Swifties -- in nearly 300 separate news segments, while more than 100 New York Times articles and columns made mention of the Swifties. And during one overheated 12-day span in late August, the Washington Post mentioned the Swifties in page 1 stories on Aug. 19, 20, 21 (two separate articles), 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31.

* Coulter also falsely suggests that no witnesses supported Kerry's account that his convoy came under enemy fire during the March 13, 1969, actions for which he was awarded the Bronze Star.

* Coulter writes that Kerry "carrie[d] a home-movie camera to war in order to reenact combat scenes and tape fake interviews with himself" during his tour in Vietnam [Page 100]. Coulter was repeating a discredited charge previously made by Internet gossip Matt Drudge and subsequently echoed by The New York Times and numerous cable and radio outlets during the 2004 presidential election.

* Coulter devotes four pages of Guilty [173-176] to discussing her false assertion that "Obama himself compared Palin to a pig and then denied doing so." In fact, Obama's September 9, 2008, statement, "you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig," did not refer to Palin, but rather to how a "list" of Sen. John McCain's policies were, according to Obama, no different from President Bush's. Obama did not mention Palin in at least the 65 words preceding his "lipstick on a pig" comment, as Media Matters noted. Moreover, the expression "lipstick on a pig" is common political rhetoric -- Obama had reportedly used the expression in the past, and McCain used it in 2007 in reference to Sen. Hillary Clinton's health-care proposal.

Good evening.

Less than two weeks until the Chimp is gone!

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PamB on January 7, 2009 at 06:33 PM
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PamB, Coulter is truly demented and pathetic. She should give it up. Her books are total trash.

Official Inauguration Poster Released By Obama Team: Exclusive

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/official-inauguration-pos_n_156045.html

Nothing is better after eight years of Bush
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NBC's First Read did a "Then and Now" comparison of ten areas to see how things have fared after eight years of Bush and Cheney. Not good, as you can imagine (especially for Bush and Cheney themselves.)

Try these three for starters:

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001)
Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2008)

And:

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE (1985=100)
Then: 115.7 (Conference Board, January 2001)
Now: 38.0, which is an all-time low (Conference Board, December 2008)

And:

U.S. BUDGET
Then: +236.2 billion (2000, Congressional Budget Office)
Now: -$1.2 trillion (projected figure for 2009, Congressional Budget Office)

It's going to take a long, long time to dig out of this hole. And, we better start digging out soon.
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Chimp Bush - what a mess he created.

First time in over a week it finally let me post, I think.

I had to take a 401 withdrawal to pay for credit card that went tilt, and I had to pay $5 to cash it because I did not have an account, since this is a federal program for retirement, how is Regions bank is charging a fee. I had to cash it, to take over to a credit union, so I could pay off a credit card, so I could live on.

Had to quit using Microsoft Internet Explorer for it is keeping files and cookies hidden so I cannot delete them and all there shortcuts has added info. It was adding cookie left and right and slowing my computer down. Still crashes, but after 20 minutes of closing programs on a Vista startup, I get it where it will open hot zone spots, and does what I want it to do.

I swear Microsoft Internet Explorer has a Red Chinese filter on it. I quit using it altogether using Opera, and Firefox next, running much faster.

Do a and look at the programs running. Make use only one Taskmgr.Exe is running, you will see the memory changing. Next work the local svchost.exe that is harder. Sometimes I had 14 to 16 of these programs running.

I bought a new computer and in a week it was infected with the same symptoms. With that version they try to hide the search button.

It is important to get Obama to commit to "We the people" and not the Tory Royal Class of segregated America. I want to actually sue the Federal Government for discrimination for the "We the people" that the Tory Fraternity of upper crust Politicians and Corporate Americans have taken away to rights of the lower cast of Americams and especially the homeless.

Do you realize that by being homeless without having a fixed dweeling to call home the government is penalizing you as an America. If you have a Po Box and live in motel going across America as an artist and may as a worker you are discrimated against. A lot of times they will charge you extra to cash a check drawn on that bank, and demand you have an account but then deny you an account because you have no fixed spot to reside in.

Also Alabama tried to take over an account when I was moving around writing the winds of America.

I have a question how can you sue your own government that gives Mexicans more rights to live here than being born here with a white face being a Liberal artist writing across America to try to make a living.

i would like less info about coulter's views on liberals and more details about how her face got broken...does anyone have a picture of her wearing one of those hannibal lecture masks?

I have a question how can you sue your own government that gives Mexicans more rights to live here than being born here with a white face being a Liberal artist writing across America to try to make a living.

Lester, I know you are not one, but this is racist in tone.

I hardly feel that an illegal Mexican, having to hide in the shadows, trying to work 12 -14hours per day in hard labor for pennies, not using medical care except in dire emergencies, not seeing family for years on end, consider themselves as having much in rights.

Evening Pam,

My health insurance went up 42% this year sucking up most of my pension increase for the year. I think the feds plan it this way.

Remember the days back in 2000, when Bushie and the Repugs had fun calling us Sore Losermen over that election? Normie Coleman and the MN Repugs are pulling all kinds of crapola, which they know in the end, will result in Franken taking his rightful place in the USA Senate !

Coleman: Reject ballots from voters who did everything right

Here's a gem from Norm Coleman's challenge of Al Franken's victory:

On Election Day, election judges in several precincts failed to initial the backs of Ballots under their control as required by Minnesota law and failed to prevent the deposit of Ballots without such endorsement in the Ballot boxes and voting machines.
In other words, Norm Coleman believes that voters who did everything right should have have their ballots voided -- simply because some election judge didn't initial the back of their ballot.

Moreover, the requirement to which Coleman refers does not come from directly from a statute -- it's actually one of Minnesota's administration rules, and those administrative rules require the election judges do more than just initial the back of ballots.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/7/11402/90897/416/680968

Evening rj,

We will probably see coldsore's books on the dollar shelf at the mall book store along with blimpbaugh's and hannity's "books".

Hi Johne,

Our health insurance went up also, offsetting the little increase that we got from SS.

Evening All.
I was surprised by Pres. Obama's pick of Dr. Gupta for Surgeon General. Was anyone else surprised by this?

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gregg on January 7, 2009 at 07:17 PM
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Had to laugh when I heard her "jaw was broken". But alas, someone must have fixed it (darn it) because she is on the TV shooting her ignorant yap off about her latest trash book where she attempts to trash the media. Nice move Ann, trash the very people you'll need to promote your garbage books.

We will probably see coldsore's books on the dollar shelf at the mall book store along with blimpbaugh's and hannity's "books".
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Johne on January 7, 2009 at 07:43 PM
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Hi JE,

Do you figure these are the sort of garbage books that the Chimpenfuhrer will put in his "library"?

These right wing nut pundits are completely useless.

Evening Marymac,

The neocons are howling about Obama's pick of Holder? for attorney general. He will definitely prosecute all the neocons who committed crimes during the bush administration and they are scared out of their wits.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Justice is sweet.

From Robert Reich:

Stimulus Plan: The Need and the Size

Tuesday 06 January 2009

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by: Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog

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Despite the size of the recent stimulus package and the general availability of capital, banks are not lending and consumers are not borrowing. (Photo: Getty Images)

The core problem we face is not access to capital. The Treasury has already flooded Wall Street and the banking system with money, committing nearly $350 billion; the Federal Reserve Board has exchanged Treasury bills for some $2.2 trillion of troubled assets; other agencies, such as the FDIC, have guaranteed trillions more. But there has been no appreciable result. Banks will not lend because they fear borrowers will not repay; businesses will not borrow because they do not have adequate markets for their goods and services; individuals cannot and will not borrow because they do not have enough reliable income to do so.

http://www.truthout.org/010709D

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Too bad Reich is not in Obama's cabinet. I have to admit that I like the choice of Hilda Solis as labor secretary. What a change to have a labor secretary that actually walked picket lines with workers. Bye, bye Elaine Chao ... you truly STINK!

rj,

Now the buzz is going around with the lower class neocon pundits concerning Obama's birth certificate. These people are such losers.

Johne on January 7, 2009 at 07:56 PM

I so hope that he holds them responsible and forces them to confess in open court. I think that would be the best possible thing for this country!

Normie Coleman and the MN Repugs are pulling all kinds of crapola, which they know in the end, will result in Franken taking his rightful place in the USA Senate !
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Normy is finished.

I am sure that Minnesotans will just love having two Democratic Senators.

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Johne on January 7, 2009 at 07:58 PM
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JE, you mean they are still at it with that nonsense.

For the right wing nuts:

YOU LOST THE ELECTION

YOU LOST IT BAD

GET OVER IT

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Time for Olbermann. Have a good night JE and everyone else (except right wing nuts if you all are lurking).

Later ...

Here is something else to "thank" Bush and the reTHUGlicans for:

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- How long can you expect to live? The answer to that tantalizing question tells a lot about the success of a nation -- or the lack of it.
If the people in some countries tend to live several years longer than the global average (as they do in, say, Japan or Singapore or most European nations) that suggests that their populations are generally healthy. But if they are below the global average, that suggests they drink too much alcohol or have other unhealthy habits (as is the case in, say, Russia).

The U.S. performed spectacularly well in the longevity competition during the 20th Century. Longevity in America famously surged from an average 47 years in 1900 to 77 years in 2000. We can credit many factors, including the virtual elimination of malaria, small pox and many childhood diseases.
Not only are Americans living longer, they are also working for more years than their forebears and they are retiring later. This is partly because they have to continue working in order to support themselves in a slower economy and also, in many cases, because they wish to stay active and alert.
The problem with this triumphant prolongation of life is that the gains in U.S. longevity have slowed in the last five years or so and this has alarmed scientists and policy makers who study it.
Dr. Robert Butler, 81, the influential and prescient physician who is CEO of the International Longevity Center in New York, believes that at least four forces are at work here:
The shockingly high infant mortality rate in the U.S. Mostly because so many babies are born in urban slums and country hollows, where prenatal and infant care is often primitive, America has the second steepest newborn mortality rate among developed nations. In 2005, the latest year for which statistics are available, about seven out of every 1,000 babies in the U.S. died before their first birthdays. Though there has been steady improvement for many years, the U.S. is 29th in the world, behind even Cuba.
The multibillion dollar political power of the industries that contribute to the steep rate of obesity among U.S. children and adults, such as fast foods and sugared drinks. Butler urges that the U.S. government create public-private initiatives to promote healthier diets and physical fitness programs among the public at large.
The estimated 46 million Americans (15.8 percent of the population) who do not have health insurance and thus lack the kind of medical care that would expand and enhance longevity.
The slowdown in medical research in the U.S. Especially absent is the kind of what-makes-the-sky-blue basic research usually conducted by younger scientists and technicians, who tend to be the most innovative, daring, productive -- and successful when it comes to life-expanding discoveries.
The main support for basic medical research in the U.S. is not universities or drug manufacturers but the government, notably the National Institutes of Health. The NIH's budget has been flattened since 2003 -- hovering around $29 billion -- with the result that the rate of discoveries has slowed. Among them, presumably, are the kinds of discoveries that would add to longevity.
Another factor, says Butler, is the researchers who receive NIH grants are getting older. Butler reckons that the average age of researchers receiving their first NIH grant is about 42, whereas he believes it should be 28 or 30.
The encouraging news is that all these challenges can be addressed -- provided the nation has the will to do so. Indeed, the new administration of President-elect Barack Obama and Congress in Washington are already committed to make health-care reform one of their immediate and massive issues.
If they add to that the commitment to battle infant mortality, obesity and the flattening of medical research, they will create a new and needed strategy for making American longevity even more vital.

Did you see that Georgie has to have a HUGE security door put on his new Dallas house he will move into once he leaves our white House? ALSO, he will be the FIRST President, who will lose his Secret Service protection after 10 years ! That was a law that got put in, and he will be the first. I would LOVE to be one of the ones who walk up to him and slaps him right across his ugly cocky face, the day they are gone!

Loggin out folks. Be well, and blog ya all tomorrow !

I found this description on a 'truthout' comment earlier today and it is so accurate, it is scary.

"Scratch the surface of the GOP and a whole horde of racists and bigots come out, wolves in sheep's clothing trying to wrap their words and deeds in the flag and prop them up on the cross. There is one thing honest about this whole sordid shenanigan: they do, in fact, hate the USA."

It sounds like they forgot to use the 'merge' function before printing.

The US Army apologized Wednesday for mistakenly sending letters to 7,000 families of soldiers …
WASHINGTON – The Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as "John Doe." Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., was sending a personal letter to all the families who received the improperly addressed letters as the result of a printing error, the Army said.
The 7,000 original letters were sent late last month to inform survivors about private organizations that offer gifts, programs and other assistance to families that have lost soldiers in Iraq or other countries where they are deployed for the war on terrorism.
It was sent from the U.S. Army Human Resources Command's Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Center in Alexandria, Va., which issued a formal apology Wednesday.
The letters, which were printed by a contractor, were to have been automatically addressed with the specific names and addresses of survivors, said Paul Boyce, an Army spokesman. Instead, they contained the placeholder greeting — "Dear John Doe."
"It's our fault for not catching it," he said. "We are certainly sorry."
Casey's personal note to the families alluded to the fact that he lost his own father in Vietnam and it said the Army is extremely sensitive to family grief.

hello, everyone. it's been awhile. I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday.

Evening Essie,

We had a happy holiday. I hope you did too.

Esme, JohnE

Happy New Year

hi esmeralda

This is a GREAT article:

Greetings, Mr. Bush.

I was sorry to hear about the passing of your cat, India. Eighteen years is a long time for a cat - my mother has one that's 20 and still going strong, if you can believe it - and I'm sure India had a comfortable, caring life with your family.

I got to spend part of last weekend with an old friend of mine. He's a bit older than 18, and he's also a troop who recently rotated back from a tour in Falluja. He just had a baby daughter, and he will be sent to Afghanistan before too much longer. He did his duty in Iraq, dealt his share of death and saw his friends die or be ripped to shreds right in front of him.

He was hollow in a lot of places that had been full before he went to Iraq. He was not the same man we'd said farewell to. But he was alive, and if he survives his upcoming Afghanistan tour, maybe he will get the chance to have a long, comfortable, caring life with his family, just like little India.

At present, my friend's life is the polar opposite of comfortable, and he still has Kabul waiting for him just over the horizon. His life is the way it is because of you, Mr. Bush. You have been the single greatest influence upon his time in this world; you put him over there and hollowed him out, and because of you, it's about to happen again. You were the single biggest influence upon the lives of every person he knew over there, every person he saw over there, and every person he killed over there.

It's funny. I was thinking the other day about when I marched in one of the first large-scale post-inauguration protests against you in Washington, DC. It was May of 2001, it was The Voter's Rights March to Restore Democracy, and it was a few thousand people shouting down the unutterably ruinous Supreme Court decision which unleashed, just as we then feared, everything that has since come to pass. "Not my president!" we bellowed. "Not my president!"

It's funny because that memory seems so very quaint to me now. A stolen election? Pfff. To paraphrase a different president, Americans get scarier stuff than that free with their breakfast cereal nowadays. Thanks to you, governor.

My All-Time-Grand-Prize-Bull-Goose-Gold-Medal-Winning Top Five list of what you've done, in no particular order, and in my own humble opinion:

1. You were warned by the outgoing administration when you first took office. You were warned by the Russians. You were warned by the Israelis. You were warned by the Germans. You were warned in a memo given to you by your own National Security Adviser. You were warned by men like Richard Clarke. You were warned all those times that Osama bin Laden intended to strike the United States, and still the Towers came down.

(All those people working on that Legacy Project of yours should go back to bed, by the way; they are trying to salvage the unsalvageable. You protected us, they claim? Ha. You're 0-1 on terrorism and 0-2 on war)

Read Whole: http://www.truthout.org/010709J

hello my dear friends. I've miss you all.

my holidays were the most delightful. 3 beautiful granddaughters, all our kids here as well as my dad. great food, presents filling the front room, home full of love...life is good.

and President Obama is only days away! life is really, really good.

Blackwell Compares Bush To Hoover

The RNC Chair contenders got together today and had themselves a debate. During this debate, they had the ceremonial bowing down before Regan that all Republican events have. Then they were actually asked who their least favorite Republican president was. None of them actually said Bush. In fact, most of them ducked the question. But Ken Blackwell actually answered with Hoover, then he compared Hoover with Bush.

So what's the most important part of this video?
Is it:
A.) That we can drag up the video of all those other guys saying that the worst Republican president was better than the best Democratic president (even Nixon?) the next time one of them decries Democratic partisanship.
or
B.) That is shows former Ohio's Bush/Cheney '04 Honorary Chairman Ken Blackwell in a flip-flop.

Hey - is it working? I want to thank Pam for emailing me almost everyday to keep me informed of what was happening with the blog.

Holidays are over and soon so are the Republicans and Bush.

It's been a very very long 8 years. Later....

Keep on Rockn'

“Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint” - Isaiah 40:30-31

Enjoy the evening, everyone.

Global Warming Freezes the Sea off Southern England

Too bad CO2 doesn't really cause global warming. Then we could warm things up by cranking out more of it. But then, that might ruin the ice skating off the southern coast of England:

Temperatures plunged so low today that the sea actually began to freeze as Arctic conditions continued to grip the UK.

In the exclusive enclave of Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset the surf had frozen solid as the waves lapping the shore began to frost over.

A half-mile stretch along the shoreline reaching about 20 yards out to sea is covered in ice on the expensive peninsula.

In southern England, normally immune to the worst of the cold weather in winter, temperatures fell as low as -12C — and the chill will go on for several days according to forecasters.

I'll save the liberal trools some trouble by noting that cold is weather, which is different from climate, and besides it's caused by global warming.

Chavez Condemns Israel for Defending Itself From Terror Attacks

Maybe this will help moonbat equivocators in the media to understand who the bad guys are in Middle East:

Venezuela has ordered the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Caracas in protest at Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip. … President Hugo Chavez has strongly condemned Israel for its actions and called on Israelis to stand up against their government.

Then again, it probably won't help them at all.

Hey everyone

"Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks." -- Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings on Sarah Palin

Ladies & Gentlemen( Can I still use those terms here on our blog?), we have a winner! The most stupid liberal comment for the year! Followed up with our second place:

"If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it's not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets." -- Erica Jong

Third place will have to be given to "THE ONE" :

"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person..." -- Barack Obama

WORD OF THE DAY
FRANKENIZE,
Deciding the results of an election based on votes cast by dead people, votes ‘cast’ weeks after the polls have closed, and recounts where every Demoncrat vote wins a triple chad score.

Sally-* on January 8, 2009 at 12:33 AM

Franken is to be compared to a babies full beshatted diaper.

Hamas in Trouble
By P. David Hornik
Wednesday, January 07, 2009

By Tuesday, Day 11 of Operation Cast Lead, Hamas was described as “desperate for a lull,” its leadership in underground bunkers and Gaza in near-anarchy. The terror organization was both boxed in and isolated as apprehensions of Hezbollah opening a second front to Israel’s north failed to materialize—inviting plausible speculation that the war was a ploy by Iran to distract attention from its progress toward the bomb.

Still Hamas operatives above ground in Gaza were able once again to fire a few dozen rockets at Israel, one of which injured a three-month-old girl in Gedera 45 kilometers from the Strip. Israeli forces had, though, reportedly taken over most of the rocket-launching sites in northern Gaza.

At about the same time the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center happened to release an 81-page report on “Hamas Exploitation of Civilians as Human Shields.” It describes such Hamas practices as:

* firing projectiles “at Israeli population centers from inside or close to private Palestinian residences and sometimes from educational institutions and mosques”;
* “exploit[ing] IDF warnings to civilians to evacuate their residences…to send children and adolescents to the relevant locations”; and
* “repeatedly attack[ing]” the crossings into Gaza “with rocket and mortar shell fire as well as attempted mass-casualty and suicide bombing attacks.”

European Jews Attacked in Response to Gaza Conflict

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

PARIS — Signs are mounting that the conflict in Gaza is starting to spill over into violence in Europe's towns and cities, with assaults against Jews and arson attacks on Jewish congregations in France, Sweden and Britain.

Assailants rammed a burning car into the gates of a synagogue in Toulouse, in southwest France, on Monday night. A Jewish congregation in Helsingborg, in southern Sweden, also was attacked Monday night by someone who "broke a window and threw in something that was burning," said police spokesman Leif Nilsson. Neighbors alerted rescue services before the fire took hold.

Someone also started a blaze outside the premises last week. And on Sunday slogans including "murderers ... You broke the cease-fire" and "don't subject Palestine to ethnic cleansing" were daubed on Israel's embassy in Stockholm.

In Denmark, a 27-year-old Dane born in Lebanon of Palestinian parents is alleged to have injured two young Israelis last week, opening fire with a handgun in a shooting that police suspect could be linked to the Gaza crisis.

France has Western Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim communities and a history of anti-Semitic violence flaring when tensions in the Middle East are high. In 2002, some 2,300 Jews left France for Israel because they felt unsafe.

President Nicolas Sarkozy warned in a statement Tuesday that France would not tolerate violence linked to the Gaza crisis. A day earlier, his interior minister said she was concerned about the prospect of contagion and met with the heads of the two main Muslim and Jewish groups and police officials to stress the need to "preserve national unity."

Damage to the synagogue in Toulouse was limited to a blackened gate, and there were no injuries even though a rabbi was giving a course to adults inside, authorities said. They said unlighted gasoline bombs were also found in a car nearby and in the synagogue's yard. A local Jewish leader, Armand Partouche, said he believed the assailants had planned to torch the synagogue, but fled when the building's alarm went off.

"It could have been very, very serious," Partouche said in a telephone interview. "There were people inside; there could have been deaths."

He said Jewish leaders are asking Toulouse authorities for reinforced security for the city's synagogues.

"We really fear that anti-Semitism will spring up again and that the current conflict will be transposed to our beautiful French republic," he said.

In Britain, the Community Security Trust, a Jewish defense group, said it had seen a rise in anti-Semitic incidents since the start of Israel's offensive against Gaza. The group said it had recorded 20-25 incidents across the country in the past week that it believed were connected with Gaza, including an arson attempt on a synagogue in north London on Sunday.

London police are investigating the attack, in which suspects splashed flammable liquid on the door and set it on fire.

Community Security Trust spokesman Mark Gardner said that in another incident last week a gang of 15-20 youths walked along the main street in Golders Green, a largely Jewish neighborhood in north London, shouting "Jew" and "Free Palestine" at passers-by.

"It could get worse," Gardner said. "We tend to see these things happen in waves."

The government in Belgium on Tuesday ordered police in Antwerp and Brussels to be on increased alert after recent pro-Palestinian protests ended in violence and dozens of arrests. Police said burning rags were shoved through the mailbox of a Jewish home in Antwerp last weekend. Damage was limited and no arrests were made.

In the Danish shooting, one Israeli man was shot in the arm and another in the leg as they were selling hair care products in a shopping mall. Eli Ruvio, who owns the company that operated the stands, said his employees have been harassed by Muslim youths since they set up three kiosks in the shopping center in August.

"They kept cursing and shouting at us," Ruvio told The Associated Press. He added that the Muslim youths also threw mud and firecrackers at the employees and spat at them.

Ruvio recalled an episode Dec. 27 when some of the youths shouted "slaughter all the Jews."

"I told my employees not to speak in Hebrew and lie about where they come from, they should say there were from Spain or somewhere else. If people ask you where you are from, never say you're from Israel," he said.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2 leader, released a new audio message Tuesday condemning U.S. president-elect Barack Obama for doing nothing to stop Israel's current military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Al-Zawahiri characterized Israel's actions as a "crusade against Islam and Muslims" and called it "Obama's gift to Israel." Added al-Zawahiri:

"This is Obama whom the American machine of lies tried to portray as the rescuer who will change the policy of America. He kills your brothers and sisters in Gaza mercilessly and without affection."

Ok, who´s going to be the first one to "blame Bush"?

PLEEEEZE......

If one is going to fill up OUR blog with trash talk, don't use Ann coulter, who has been caught with her pants down, and her books nothing but lies! At least try and find a legitimate source for your silly, crap. oooops! I notice you don't list the source for ANY of this right wing trash you all find in archives from screwballs around the world!

As far as blaming Bush for this current mess in Israel/Gaza??? You betch your fat ass we do!

"One of Obama's biggest challenges will be to craft diplomatic solutions that do not have unintended consequences. Good intentions go only so far in the Middle East, and today's battles often can be traced to choices made by the Israeli government or the Bush administration that ended up backfiring.

In the 1980s, for instance, the Israeli government decided to weaken the secular Fatah movement headed by Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat by promoting the rise of Islamic parties as a counterweight, on the theory that Islamic groups would not have the same nationalistic impulses.

So Fatah's social networks were dismantled by the Israeli government, but it went easy on Islamic charitable networks. This decision fueled the rise of Hamas as a political force, with its network of health clinics and social services that far exceeded the abilities of the often-corrupt Fatah movement.

"There's no question there was a degree of blowback," Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East negotiator and the author of "The Much Too Promised Land."

Israel now wants to make a peace deal with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president who heads Fatah but has no control over Gaza. So one of the Israeli aims in Gaza today is to weaken Hamas enough that it no longer can be a political rival to Fatah in Gaza -- precisely the opposite of what Israel hoped to achieve decades ago with its efforts to encourage the rise of Islamic groups.

"This is not like a regime-change operation, but at the end of the day, the restoration of the Palestinian Authority back to Gaza should be on the agenda as a whole," said Jeremy Issacharoff, deputy chief of mission at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

Similarly, the Bush administration encouraged Israel to withdraw from Gaza and demolish its settlements there, arguing that it was a step forward on peace. But, as a condition, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2004 demanded a letter from President Bush in which the United States conceded two critical peace issues on settlements and refugees to Israel. The Israeli government later cited the letter as giving implicit permission to continue some settlement expansion during peace talks brokered late in the Bush administration, undermining those efforts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/06/AR2009010602868.html

Just more failures of the Bush administration.

Pray that President Barack Obama can un-do the destruction and evil that Bus/Cheney created.

Biden on a world tour to talk to world leaders how to fix it all!!!!!

Just when we think you are joking around, pammy, pretending to be stupid, you make posts like that.

How do you feed yourself?