Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The truth
is that Bush just likes to blow things up
-- in Iraq, in the United States and in Congress.-- U.S. Representative Pete Stark,
18 October 2007
Wednesday
24 October 2007
Deep End News
Dick Cheney’s craziness used to influence foreign policy.
Now it
is foreign policy . . . once our cowboys have talked their crazy talk, they have to walk their crazy walk.
4.3 Quake Shakes SoCal AP
Southbound traffic on I-5 was stopped before dawn today as a Camp Pendleton fire caused a full closure of the freeway between San Clemente and Oceanside. The southbound lanes were reopened shortly after 7 a.m.
Orange County Register link
San Diego Union link
No oil refineries in the region appear to have been affected by the power outages or the fires.
Fourteen hundred Navy personnel and family members have been evacuated to three U.S. Navy installations at Coronado, El Centro and San Diego -- something officials said would help make room at military bases for more civilian evacuees.There has been no determination to put the Marines into the fight yet, and officials are using this time
to train the Marines in firefighting techniques.
FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security.Feds & Fires . . . 1, 2, 3, 4
Andy Kondrat: "The President is flying in on Thursday to tell us that everyone's doing a heck of a job.""I think it’s part of a larger picture of how weak he is, especially domestically.”
Bush to unveil 'new initiatives' on Cuba AFP
CIA agent who helped kill Che Guevara to sell icon's hair AFP
Saturday, 27 October
Progressive Democrats of America
and the October 27 Coalition
John Edwards for President:
Support the Troops. End the War.
sign up: johnedwards.com
Women for Edwards here
Tuesday
23 October 2007
Tuesday.
. . Radio: Mendocino County Board of Supervisors KMEC
Teevee: Showdown w/Iran Frontline, PBS
"The question really is whether Congress should toss out
chunks of the Constitution because Mr. Bush finds them inconvenient and some Democrats are afraid to look soft on terrorism."
New York Times Editorial
Hold Lawbreakers Accountable
MoveOn.org
MoveOn Text: For years the Bush administration has been illegally wiretapping Americans' phone calls with the willing assistance of major telecom companies like Verizon and AT&T. Now the White House is putting enormous pressure on Congress to give phone companies retroactive immunity for all the laws they broke spying on innocent Americans.
Here's why: The pending lawsuits against these companies may be the only way we ever find out how far the Bush administration went in breaking the law. President Bush wants immunity for them to cover his own actions.
We need to speak out loudly against this move.
A compiled petition with your individual comment will be presented to your Senators and Representative.
Monday 22 October 2007
Bush's "Emergency" War Request Filled With Nonessential Spending
Congress Daily PM
Today is the deadline to register to vote in the
Nov. 6 local elections
. . . a state long renowned for cocaine cartels, political shenanigans and swampland real estate scams.
Fraud and Florida's multimillion-dollar wheelchair
Tom Brown, Reuters
"If they want a condemnation we'll give them one:
We condemn the entire Republican leadership"They want to be our protectors. All they ask in return is unlimited power.
Friday
19 October 2007
Mendocino CountyLu is at least the seventh person to lose his life while hunting abalone off the Mendocino County coast this year.
Monday is the deadline to register to vote in the
Nov. 6 local elections.
By the time authorities had figured out the source, Topoff activities at the hotel -- a news briefing and a paper exercise dealing with the aftermath of the mock "dirty bomb" -- had been long since canceled. Chertoff had bailed out.
Portland: Real alert ties up Topoff 4 exercise
Joseph Rose, oregonian
Iraq to Cheney: ‘Big fat no’ on bases in Iraq.
thinkprogress
When Mann and Leverett went public with the inside story behind the impending disaster with Iran, the White House dismissed them. Then it imposed prior restraint on them, an extraordinary episode of government censorship. Finally, it threatened them.
Now they are afraid of the White House, and watching what they say. But still, they feel they have to speak out.
The Secret History of the Impending War with Iran That the White House Doesn't Want You to Know
John H. Richardson, esquire
Of all the charges that may be leveled at George W. Bush and his Nazi gang, it cannot be said that they didn't plan ahead.
How a Second Terrorist Attack
Will Benefit George W. Bush
existentialistcowboy
Clinton to hold "Rural Americans for Hillary" lunch and campaign briefing at lobbyist offices of agribusiness giant Monsanto
Jake Tapper, abc
Hillary's Bush Connection realnews