Imagine!

V--thanks for the thread article. Sorry I wasn't around last night to post it last night.

In response to what you wrote, we do get a little bit of that right now. I'll give you an example...yesterday, driving around to do my husband's errands there were LOTS of Paul signs, both homemade and professional. Only one big Romney sign. No McCains. No Huckabees.

And actually, I didn't see any Democratic signs at all. I don't know why.

But for two months now, there has been a lot of signs for Paul. (The homemade ones. Because to the best of my knowledge the campaign ones are not allowed to be put out too far in advanced of the election.)

BTW...on the topic of election fraud and suppression.

I've always felt that it's not about who wins. I wasn't a tremendous Reagan fan but hey...he was elected fairly. So I dealt with it.

But when you think your vote counts and the cheat you out of your vote, then it is not a matter of grinning and bearing it. It is a matter of corporations or individuals pretending that we chose.

What really surprises me is that after the 00, 02, and 04 elections, while Mr. McAulliffe sat on his a$$ and did nothing to protect them and same with the Democratic party after 9/11 did nothing to protect them. Then after 02 and 04, BOTH parties officially ignored the fraud. Donna Brazile said no fraud. Howard Dean in his new role as DNC chair said no fraud... The DNC who directed Kerry's campaign said no fraud.

So now we have driblets of info coming out--now that we have more Democratic governors and Sec. of States who are investigating and revealing how the fraud had occurred.

So now...here it is 08. We've had a year of crappy 08 candidate talk. And it's like everyone is ignoring the big-fat-elephant in the room.

Election fraud and suppression.

Change in the air--see front page.

Thanks for the call to arms, V. I personally need a kick every few days or so--life just interferes.

Bless you all.

So how do we convince people who are so... convinced.. they are in the minority, that they are actually a core member of the mainstream majority?

Talking to people, that to me is the greatest part of confusion to overcome. You can feel their desperation, saying in whispers what they don't dare to say outloud or the REAL minority will attack them for it. They get so locked into fear it is literally like pulling teeth with these people trying to convince them they are not alone.

In their minds, the isolation is as REAL as any fence wall or door.

The only way I can think of is to make sure those signs get out there so people will SEE them.

You know, it is so wierd to hear yall talk about the signs you see in election cycles.

There are no signs here. Only for local elections. During the heat of presidential races, signs pop up for the final two frontrunners, but not many.

Do you know what we will find when we storm the strongholds? A huddled bunch of desperate and scared people that have been isolated for so long they literally know of no other way to live. People who totally believe they are beyond all hope of rescue, will recoil at being saved, but it does not mean you don't fight like hell to reach them anyway.

Change the way they live in republican strongholds, and you will change the world.

Isolation is the key word, Christy and V.

The way to continue to suppress people and to weaken them is to isolate them and to beat up on those who take the courageous route by speaking out or visibly showing their beliefs.

We do have signs and conversations. But what makes a huge difference is the infrastructure. And right now the infrastructure is set to take down those who step out of line.

We suffer from PTSD and from 'abused wife (spouse) syndrome'. So when you think of the word "Isolation" with "PTSD and AWS" then you see how the motivations and actions are purposefully driven to keep us isolated, fearful, and inactive.

They found her. What is left of her. Real bad.

Pregnant Marine's Grave Apparently Found

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/12/AR2008011200430.html?hpid=moreheadlines

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I want you all to check out the grammar and total lack o proper English by the idiot... not to mention the message ....

Bush: Maintaining troop levels 'fine with me'

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait (AP) -- President Bush said Saturday it's "fine with me" if generals recommend no more troop-strength reductions in Iraq than those already planned to take the force posture down to about 130,000.

Traveling for the next few days among Sunni Arab-ruled states jittery about the rising influence and ambitions of Shiite-majority Iran, Bush used part of remarks in Kuwait that were focused on Iraq to put Tehran on notice -- again.

"Iran's role in fomenting violence has been exposed," he said as he listed coalition successes in Iraq. "Iranian agents are in our custody, and we are learning more about how Iran has supported extremist groups with training and lethal aid."

-snip-

Bush congratulated Bahrain for holding free elections and noted the election two years ago of a woman to parliament.

"Our two nations share a common vision for the future of the Middle East," Bush said in brief remarks at the welcome ceremony in his honor.

-snip-

The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, told reporters after Bush spoke that the overall flow of weaponry from Iran into Iraq appears to be down, but attacks with "explosively formed penetrators" tied to Tehran are sharply up in recent days.

Camp Arifjan is the largest U.S. base in Kuwait, home to about 9,000 American troops. Bush met there with Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker to get a firsthand report on the war in Iraq. The two are scheduled to give Congress another update on Iraq in March and make a recommendation about troop levels that Bush said must be made "based upon success."

"My attitude is, if he didn't want to continue the drawdown, that's fine with me, in order to make sure we succeed, see," the president told reporters after the hourlong briefing. "I said to the general, 'If you want to slow her down, fine. It's up to you."'

After a similar report from Petraeus and Crocker in September, Bush announced he would withdraw some troops from Iraq by July -- essentially the 30,000 sent as part of a buildup ordered a year ago -- but still keep the U.S. level there at about 130,000.

"The only thing I can tell you we're on track for is, we're doing what we said was going to happen," the president said.

-snip-

The war remains deeply unpopular to the U.S. public and to Democratic leaders in Congress, who have been unable to force Bush's hand on deeper, faster troop withdrawals.

U.S. commanders credit a Sunni backlash against al Qaeda in Iraq with helping reduce violence over the past six months.

So far, nine of 18 Iraqi provinces have reverted from U.S. military to Iraqi security control, although the transition has gone more slowly than the Bush administration once hoped.

But Bush said the addition of troops to Iraq over the past year has produced results, saying it has helped turn the country into a place where "hope is returning." He cited citizen cooperation against extremists, grass-roots political changes and lower violence levels.

He also defended the performance of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other leaders.

"I'm not making excuses for a government, but to go from a tyranny to a democracy overnight is virtually impossible. And so when you say, am I pleased with the progress -- what they have gone through and where they are today I think is good progress," Bush said. "Have they done enough? No."

In language that seemed to presage maintaining U.S. troop levels, Bush said: "We cannot take the achievements of 2007 for granted. We must do all we can to ensure that 2008 brings even greater progress for Iraq's young democracy."

moron...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/12/bush.mideast.ap/index.html

"The only thing I can tell you we're on track for is, we're doing what we said was going to happen," the president said.

What a friggin retard.

He defended his decision a year ago to order a buildup of troops to Iraq, the one that is now scheduled to essentially phase out by this summer.

“The new way forward I announced a year ago changed our approach in fundamental ways,” he said.

Bush also defended the progress made by the central government in Baghdad, which has lagged in passing legislative reforms seen as key to tamping down the sectarian violence that still plagues the country and hampers other progress.

“What they’ve gone through to where they are now is good progress,” Bush said, adding it still isn’t enough.

“I’m not making excuses for the government,” he added. “They have got more work to do.”

Bush’s comments came during an eight-day trip to the region, as he pivoted from Mideast peacemaking to the war that has defined his presidency.

Afterward, Bush gave about five minutes of thank-you remarks to cheering troops at the base.

“It’s hard work that you’re doing. But it’s necessary work,” the president told them. “There is no doubt in my mind that we will succeed. There is no doubt in my mind that when history is written, the final page will say, ‘Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.”’

moron...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22620189/

Cross-posted, please come comment! :)

(Woz & Christy, thanks for leaving comments there...)

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/veritasblog/

“What they’ve gone through to where they are now is good progress,” Bush said, adding it still isn’t enough.

What a bastard.

YW, V.

Great thread.

There is something I have been wanting to ask you for a long long time. I left a post for you here..

http://christysartblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/v.html

Christy said:

Come on Tuesday. Come on Mr. Wexler!

Yall need to make sure to TELL EVERBODY you know to watch.

They will try to black out everything about it.

Come on tuesday!

@@@@@@@@@@@

Wexler's speech on impeachment will posted at You Tube after Tuesday.

I suggest that everyone swarm to the Wexler speech video (like the Ron Paul folks are famous for). If it gets around 5,000 hits it becomes a featured video usually.

1) rate it 5 stars
2) comment on it
3) favorite it
4) forward it to others
5) feature it on your You Tube homepage etc...

v--your link isn't working

V
Link works on mine

Republican "Humor" (Oxymoron)

Rush Limbaugh = OxyContinMoron

Oops, try this:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/veritasblog/Cj9X

I'm still learning...

Bush Prepared to Slow Reduction of Force in Iraq
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2qub8m
Isn't that same as "Stay the Course"?

Musharraf tells U.S.: Stay out of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has made it clear that a U.S. military mission to capture Osama bin Laden or other top al Qaeda leaders on Pakistani soil would be unwelcome and "against the sovereignty of Pakistan."

President Musharraf told the Singapore Straits Times that his military has the experience to operate in the mountainous terrain near the Afghan border and if the United States went in they would "regret that day."

The New York Times reported last Sunday that the Bush administration is considering expanding covert operations in the western part of Pakistan to shore up support for Musharraf's government and to find bin Laden and his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

"Nobody will come here until we ask them to come and we haven't asked them," Musharraf told the Strait Times this week.

Strait Times reporter Anthony Paul asked Musharraf: "If the Americans came, would you treat that as an invasion?"

"Certainly," Musharaff said. "If they come without our permission, that's against the sovereignty of Pakistan."

He said if there is good intelligence that bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan "the methodology of getting

Musharraf told CNN's Wolf Blitzer last month that "it is Pakistan's forces which will act" if there is "actionable intelligence" that senior al Qaeda leaders are in Pakistan, although he would consider U.S. assistance.

In the latest interview, Musharraf noted that U.S. forces were having trouble chasing al Qaeda in similar terrain in southern Afghanistan.

"The United States seems to think that what our army cannot do, they can do," he said. "This is a very wrong perception. I challenge anybody to come into our mountains. They would regret that day. It's not easy there."

more...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/12/pakistan.us/index.html

I might say Dubya hasn't exactly curried favor with Pakistan, eh?

Two great threads today - Thanks V and thanks sparrow for posting. Lots to think about.

Just an aside. Two young Aussie kayakers have rowed from Australia for 60 days and will arrive at Plymouth New Zealand very soon.

Baghdad Embassy Considered A Serious Fire Risk

'Serious' Problems Were Ignored, Says State Dept. Official
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 12, 2008; Page A01

The firefighting system in the massive $736 million embassy complex in Baghdad has potential safety problems that top U.S. officials dismissed in their rush to declare construction largely completed by the end of last year, according to internal State Department documents, e-mails and interviews.

Some officials assert that in the push to complete the long-delayed project, potentially life-threatening problems have been left untouched. "This is serious enough to get someone killed," said a State Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retaliation. "The fire systems are the tip of the iceberg. That is the most visible. But no one has ever inspected the electrical system, the power plant" and other parts of the embassy complex, which will house more than 1,000 people and is vulnerable to mortar attacks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/11/AR2008011103772.html?hpid=topnews

V - get the masses of cars on the roads covered with bumper stickers. As well as house windows. Are there bumper stickers and window stickers available? Osmosis. See it often enough it becomes fact.

"IMAGINE"

Excellent post, V

Wexler petition not quite at 200,000:

Phone (optional) Zip
186,780
signed up
and counting...

Yes, V and Karen--TWO great threads today.

What a joke he is!!!!!!

What's the difference between you Georgie, and Hitler, the numbers don't differ, Hmmmmmmm You Decide?

Bush: US Should Have Acted on Auschwitz

JERUSALEM — A teary-eyed President Bush stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz on Friday at Israel's Holocaust memorial and said the U.S. should have sent bombers to prevent the extermination of Jews there.
Yad Vashem's chairman, Avner Shalev, quoted Bush as saying the U.S. should have "bombed it." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Bush referred to the train tracks leading to Auschwitz, not the camp itself, where between 1.1 million and 1.5 million people were killed by Nazi Germany.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080111/bush-israel-holocaust/

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq 1,163,944

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

Six Years of Guantanamo: Enough is Enough!

The sixth anniversary of the creation of Bush's legal "black hole" is upon us.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011108B.shtml

Andy Worthington writes for AlterNet, "Six years ago, on Jan. 11, 2002, the first of 778 prisoners - referred to as 'detainees' and identified only by numbers - arrived at a hastily erected prison in the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where, ever since, they have been subjected to a disturbingly lawless experiment."

Front Page Depictions of War

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011108A.shtml

In an interview with Truthout's Geoffrey Millard, Assistant Professor Andrew Roth discussed his recent study of pictures that appear on the front pages of major newspapers and their portrayal of the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations.

This one may get me into trouble...

http://christysartblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-do-they-hate-us.html

The Yellow Rose of Peace Bus ( http://www.yellowrosepeacebus.com ) has been destroyed by fire. Bill Perry reports:

The bus in this photo, was totaled by fire, around 9:30 pm, Friday night, 1/11/08. This bus, often mired in controversy since the IVAW "Dirty South" tour that left Philly in June, and had Active Duty BBQ's @ Ft Meade, Ft Jackson, Camp Lejeune, Ft Benning, and other Southern Military Posts ( Including an IVAW benefit by Tom Morello, of Rage Against the Machine, and AudioSlave, in Virginia ) as well as backdrop for many a Demonstration, and Ft Drum, NY, organizing parties, has finally died.

This photo shows the huge "Don't Attack Iran" and "Impeach Bush" logos, that let everybody on the highway know just how the occupants felt about the state of the state.

Owner~Operator~Driver ( and Veteran ) Jim Goodnow pulled into a South Jersey Truck Stop, to catch a 3 or 4 hour nap. Jim saw, in retrospect, some suspicious activity outside the bus, and about 20 minutes later, the entire engine compartment, and back of the bus was engulfed in flames. Mr Goodnow speculates that the cause could have been anything from ARSON, to ATTEMPTED MURDER. He plans to notify the ATF Arson Squad on Saturday morning. Stay tuned....

Beautiful political art Christy.

I guess that's one painting you won't have to wrestle from your mom.

Ty Sparrow.

Nope. I doubt mom will want this one.

Kucinich Seeks New Hampshire Vote Recount

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011108C.shtml

This one may get me into trouble...

Excellent Christy.

A picture speaks a thousand words doesn't it

Posting on Rebelle if you don't mind

sparrow - the bus fire? That's why we need to get the word out as many different ways as possible. We need to get it out to people - same words, different media, about the impeach Bush and STOP warmongering against Iran.

Together with Christy's painting - now that would make the whole message even more powerful.

Christy,

You could donate the picture to Y-kos's auction. They use the auction to help pay for the whole event. It would go to someone who cares and would give you a tax write off too. It would also help you see what your art might get in a professional sense.

Of course you could hang it on your front door too!

Nope. I doubt mom will want this one.

I would. A soldier who cares what is happening in Iraq.

Of course you could hang it on your front door too!

In the South, don't you dare Christy, I will never forget the hours of stress, and worry I lived through the night you went out putting up signs protesting Georgie and Co asking for Impeaching.

Action it off and let the proceeds go to the injured vets whom Georgie and Co have so obviously forgotten

Wow! You see what your brain sees. Christy, in your painting I see a mother and her child. Kangaroo alerted me to the soldier so I went and looked again. I can see the soldier now, but I also see a mother, wearing a soft, felt hat and gloves holding her baby close.

As a soldier it is equally powerful. This is what we are doing when we send young people to occupy a land and never have to obey the law of the land. We send them there to break. If they come home they will be broken. And still nothing has been learned by our leaders.

And still "THEY* send *OUR* children. And they are not forgotten when they return alive but wanting. Bush doesn't forget them - he regards them as a huge inconvenience and a blight on the landscape.

If all were as Bush would wish these vets would never have returned except in a coffin. They're too expensive whilst their heart beats and the blood flows.

These warmongers never send their own children. Not to the front lines. They send your children to the front lines.

I can not donate it, I'm too greedy, but not sure I can sell it either. It just don't feel right.

It is not my usual bright colors and I don't think I should give it away. I don't think my man would let me anyway. It doesn't match anything in my house.

I don't know wtf to do with it. But I know the photo of the canvas is nothing compared to the actual canvas.

I never dreamed I would be working on this level.I have no idea where to go from here.

Yay - the 2 young kayakers have finished!!! They've landed in New Zealand to a Maori welcome. Wow! They are younger than my sons so I've been a bit anxious.

Woz, that soldier is a woman. She is an American soldier. If she survived.

This was done from an actual photo.

The baby...was... Iraqi. A boy.

I will look up thier names soon, but right now I am trying to OD on Advil.

Ok, not really. But if it will get rid of this headache..

ok - thanks Christy - I was convinced they were a woman's hands. Either way. It is filled with utter despair. A very emotional piece and I think you probably need to sleep the headache away with the medication too. I understand your reluctance to part with it. You've invested much of yourself in this piece. I know that you always do invest yourself in your art, but in this piece you invested a whole deeper level of yourself. That's why you are in pain now.

I posted the photo for you Woz.

PIC NYTimes

Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles

Stress leads some vets to murder
NYT: 121 Afghanistan and Iraq vets charged with murder upon return.

http://rawstory.com/

KILLINGS ON THE HOMEFRONT

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/11/us/20080113_VETS_SLIDESHOW_6.html

Oh wow! Thankyou Christy. I love it. Whether the soldier is male or female. My sons would hold a child that close and that tenderly in such a situation. And cry. And so would my granddaughter who is old enough to be that soldier.

And today - guess what I'm printing? So I can go out and read after my attempts to get back to the pool and recover properly. You will be hearing from me in the not-too-distant future. If I'm reading I'm better to do that in other locations rather than at the computer. It's a bit windy these days for the park I think. I'd spend more time chasing it than reading it I fear.

Executive Resigns in Storm Over Sleeping Guards

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011108LB.shtml

Steven Mufson, The Washington Post:

"Wackenhut, a private security firm that guards 21 commercial nuclear power plants around the United States, said yesterday that its chief executive resigned during continuing controversy about guards caught napping at a Pennsylvania reactor last year."

The photo still doesn't clear up the gender, but my god - what a powerful picture to promote peace!

Christy you got the story and name of the photographer who took that pic.

I know that it was on republican site but cannot remember his name.

IRAQ The unseen war

The grim reality of Iraq rarely appears in the American press. This photo gallery reveals the war's horrible human toll.

By Gary Kamiya
Aug 23, 2005 This is a war the Bush administration does not want Americans to see. From the beginning, the U.S. government has attempted to censor information about the Iraq war, prohibiting photographs of the coffins of U.S. troops returning home and refusing as a matter of policy to keep track of the number of Iraqis who have been killed. President Bush has yet to attend a single funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq.
To be sure, this see-no-evil approach is neither surprising nor new. With the qualified exception of the Vietnam War, when images of body bags appeared frequently on the nightly news, American governments have always tightly controlled images of war. There is good reason for this. In war, a picture really is worth a thousand words. No story about a battle, no matter how eloquent, possesses the raw power of a photograph. And when it comes to war's ultimate consequences -- death and suffering -- there is simply no comparison: a photo of a dead man or woman has the capacity to unsettle those who see it, sometimes forever. The bloated corpses photographed by Mathew Brady after Antietam remain in the mind, their puffy, shocked faces haunting us like an obscene truth almost 150 years after the soldiers were cut down.
"War is hell," said Gen. Sherman, and everyone dutifully agrees. Yet the hell in Iraq is almost never shown. The few exceptions -- the charred bodies of American contractors hanging from a bridge in Fallujah, the blood-spattered little girl wailing after her parents were killed next to her -- only prove the rule.
Governments keep war hidden because it is hideous. To allow citizens to see its reality -- the shattered bodies, the wounded children, the incomprehensible mayhem -- is to risk eroding popular support for it. This is particularly true with wars that have less than overwhelming popular support to begin with. In the case of Vietnam, battlefield images played an important role in turning the tide of public opinion. And in Iraq, a war whose official justification has turned out to be false, and which a majority of the American people now believe to have been a mistake, the administration would prefer that these grim images never be seen.
But the media is also responsible for sanitizing the Iraq war, at times rendering it almost invisible. Most American publications have been reluctant to run graphic war images. Almost no photographs of the 1,868 U.S. troops who have been killed to date in Iraq have appeared in U.S. publications. In May 2005, the Los Angeles Times surveyed six major newspapers and the nation's two leading newsmagazines, and found that over a six-month period, no images of dead American troops appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Time or Newsweek. A single image of a covered body of a slain American ran in the Seattle Times. There were also comparatively few images of wounded Americans. The publications surveyed tended to run more images of dead or wounded Iraqis, but they have hardly been depicted in large numbers either.

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/08/23/iraq_gallery/index.html

I found it,

Woz that pic of Christys is At this site, by Michael Yon

http://michaelyon-online.com/wp/tabula-rasa.htm

That was a day that I kept shooting pictures, and one of the pictures of Major Beiger cradling the dying little girl in his arms made news around the world—and it exposed the terrorists in Mosul for who they really are. This was no stray bomb landing in the middle of ongoing combat. Perhaps it was a deliberate effort to kill and maim as many children as possible in order to frighten their parents, or maybe it was just bad luck that the kids were there. Whatever the case, it backfired; Iraqis love their children. When the foreign terrorists targeted kids, the citizens of Mosul grew to hate insurgents. US Army officers told me that after that photo had run on Iraqi television and in newspapers, intelligence flooded in that resulted in killings and captures of more terrorists.

KANGAROO SAID,
That picture would not exist, if not for the illegal war and occupation of Iraq.

No kangaroo. It's a strong case for peace. Just like the little Vietnamese girl running naked down the road, her skin burning after her clothes had burned from her body. War is obscene. And this young soldier should be at home with his family, not cradling a wounded, dying baby in a war that should not be. It's an obscenity that some corners of the west have descended to this. Accepting the deaths of babies as "collateral damage". It's an outrage. This young soldier will never forget the feel of the still warm child dying in his arms. And I'm pleased this little boy, had loving arms around him at the end. The arms of his enemy maybe, but loving just the same.

Thanks for this kangaroo. How hard to just be there. How hard to just witness. How impossible to forget.

Huckabee .. another End Timer

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080128/blumenthal

Article is by Max Blumenthal, the guy who infiltrated the Young Republicans and the Christian/Radical Israel convention - he's the son of Sydney Blumenthal who writes for The Guardian and was part of the Clinton cabinet.

" one of the pictures of Major Beiger cradling the dying little girl in his arms"

Either my memory is shot, or I have seen too damn many war pics.

'Major Beiger cradling the Iraqi girl, Farah,"

Wow. I need memory pills. I have no idea how I reversed thier genders.

Come on Tuesday!

Thanks for this kangaroo. How hard to just be there. How hard to just witness. How impossible to forget.

Amen

IMAGINE

The White House, the house of the people with no Georgie and his gang of war criminal cronies desicrating it.

Good Morning Aussies!

Good morning Christy, if you are still there that is.

Im here, been awake since 2, can't sleep.

Christy - I'm not surprised you're not sleeping right now. That would have taken an enormous amount of energy - that amazing painting

TY darlin. It did. I worked on it for 3 days. And I still have to tweek it, but I just can't face it again for like atleast a week.

BTW TY Rossi for finding the orgin of that photo.

It has been sitting in my files for years.

I can not believe how depressing the news is lately.

It just keeps getting worse.

".. and about 20 minutes later, the entire engine compartment, and back of the bus was engulfed in flames. Mr Goodnow speculates that the cause could have been anything from ARSON, to ATTEMPTED MURDER. "

That is really scary. These busheviks are insane.

Perhaps it was an early celebration? A senior advisor to Hillary Clinton was arrested and charged with aggravated drunken driving on the eve of the New Hampshire primary.

Nashua police say Sidney Blumenthal (seen here in the preppiest mugshot ever) was arrested early Monday morning after his car was pulled over for traveling 70 mph in a 30 mph zone. Officers smelled alcohol and issued Blumenthal a field sobriety test, which he failed. He was then arrested. Since Sidney's car traveled at such a high rate of speed, he was given an aggravated DWI.

http://www.tmz.com/2008/01/12/hillary-advisor-busted-for-dwi-in-new-hampshire/

Could this be the "Kos effect"?

According to McClachy, Romney now has an eight point lead over McCain in Michigan.

new thread

Sparrow
"Kos effect"?
Michigan is his home state (Romney) and he's pulled all his staff to there lately. If he loses it, he's probably out. I wish he'd beat McCain in general. McCain stacks up better against the Dem candidates because he pulls in (naive) independents.

Christy
Syd Blumenthal writes for the Guardian. I like him a super-lot. His son Max did the videos where he infiltrated the Young Republicans and the hyper-radical Christian/Jewish group that Delay met with who is pro-war and crazy. Max also just wrote a good article in The Nation about how Huckabee is another one of those who think the End Times is around the corner.