Entries from May 2007 ↓

As frequently as I say that we need a full scale House (and Senate) cleaning, I really do appreciate Senator Boxer (D-CA). I frequently contact her via email regarding issues that are on my mind, and more often than not receive a personalized reply.

Some politicians may indeed “just hit delete” when they receive email feedback like everyone says, but not all of them do I’m happy to say. So don’t hesitate to contact the people who represent you by email. You can also always call or send a letter or postcard, but many of us just don’t have time to do that. Don’t let the naysayers convince you otherwise, your representatives are indeed listening.

Once again those in power in the United States have been caught off guard by Mother Nature, and the Bush Administration decides to blame the underlings. Any rational person, or group of people, would have learned from an embarrassing tragedy like Hurricane Katrina and initiated measures to avoid any future such fuck ups. Turns out the Bush Administration is too busy making their defense industry buddies rich in Iraq to worry about things at home.

I wish I could stop writing blog entries like this, but these guys keep fucking up and blaming the people who have been warning them about these things. So of course, when shit went down and Kansas got rocked by a tornado and was unable to properly respond because their National Guard troops and equipment are in Iraq, Tony “Snow Job” blames Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (a Democrat of course) for not requesting the right equipment. I wish that I didn’t believe the audacity of the administration, but I do.

It just so happens that Governor Sebelius had indeed requested equipment, and had complained to President Bush directly regarding the squandering of National Guard resources for the Iraq Occupation (yeah, it’s an occupation, not a war). Did he care, or do anything about it? No. And when shit went down, who got blamed? Exactly.

But here we are, fellow citizens. Just chillin’ at the nine to five, getting primed by the mainstream media whores to pay four bucks a gallon for gas this summer. And do we give a shit or call this bastard on his lies? Anyone? Hello? Contact your Representatives and Senators and make it clear that you will not stand for this anymore. Stop the Iraq war, bring the women and men home alive, and start worrying about things at home rather than on the other side of the world.

For more information, visit:

America the Unready at The Mahablog
White House Blames Gov. Sebelius For National Guard Shortages on ThinkProgress.com

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Just in case you missed my man Mike Gravel (or Buzz Gravel if he’s smart and takes Stephen’s advice) on The Colbert Report, here it is for you. I like Mike more and more the more I hear him talk. He’s getting a ton of Internet buzz, and hopefully his appearance on TCR will help his popularity. He’s got great ideas, stands for everything that the current administration doesn’t, and hass a sense of humor to top it off. Check it out:

This here is a bit of a break from my random political ramblings. I just wanted to sincerely thank all of you who have been visiting my blog lately. I really appreciate you stopping by and opening your minds to whatever crazy crap I’m spewing that day. It’s amazing how much my readership has increased lately, and it’s really cool to see the numbers keep increasing. So thank you, and please keep stopping by.

Here’s a screen capture from Google Analytics showing where all of you are coming from. It’ pretty cool to have readers from all over the world!

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Harris Reports, “the best place to look for polls that are spot on,” has reported that 29% of the Americans polled believed that the CIA knew about 9/11 before it happened. That means that almost a third of all Americans believe that the CIA was either involved or was complicit in allowing 9/11 to happen. If they had the information, why didn’t they do anything to stop it?

What this means to you specifically is that if you don’t believe or aren’t sure if the CIA knew about 9/11 before it happened, and you look at the person on your left and then at the person on your right, one of them is 9/11 conspiracy nut. Or at least one in the making.

Think about that. That’s a hell of a lot of people who believe that our own CIA had information and didn’t do anything to protect the American People. Doesn’t that piss you off? If not, why not? It sure as hell should.

Read the article here.

True to form, American Hero and All Around Great Guy and Presidential Hopeful Rudy Giuliani has been caught lying about what happened on September 11, 2001. Again.

At an April 19th event at the Oklahoma Museum and National Memorial, Giuliani was asked if he expected the twin towers to collapse on 9/11. In response, good old Rusy said:

Yeah, but not in the way they did.

It occurred to us all that they might ultimately collapse over….the way buildings usually collapse, which is in stages.

It looked like at some point the top of the building would come off, and then maybe the middle of the building and then maybe there’d be a shell left….the way number 7 came down 4 or 5 o’clock in the afternoon - over a period of time - but the idea that it would implode, the implosion that took place, I actually didn’t realize that until much later.

I mean, am I the only one who can’t fucking believe this guy? First of all, he is saying that he predicted that two — yes, TWO — steel frame buildings would collapse after being hit by planes, even though a steel frame building had never before collapsed due to fire. EVER. That’s some serious understanding of mechanical engineering and physics you have, Rudy. So that’s lie number one.

Lie number two is “…the way number 7 came down 4 or 5 o’clock in the afternoon - over a period of time.” Yeah, thing about that is that WTC 7 absolutely did not come down over a period of time. Unless you consider “a period of time” to be approximately seven seconds. (Which technically it is, but that ain’t what My Man Rudy was talking about).

So if, somehow, our government, and some seriously powerful folk on the inside, didn’t have anything to do with 9/11, why all the lies? Why does the story of what happened on that awful day get more and more convoluted the more the neocons tell it? Why make shit up and tell lies if there’s nothing to hide?

I sincerely hope that the accusations are not true, and that 9/11 really was just a terrorist act. But the more and more I learn, and the more lies that are told, the more I realize that it’s just not possible.

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Last week, President Bush sent a funding bill to Congress with a little extra wording that would grant immunity to all of the phone companies involved in the illegal wiretapping fiasco. This means that any class action lawsuits would be thrown out, like the one that the EFF has going on right now besides other litigation that may come up later.

I can’t believe that GWB would have the audacity to veto a war funding bill that forces him to pull the troops out, and then immediately turn around and send Congress a bill asking them to grant his multibillionnaire telecom tycoon buddies immunity from their massive fuck up. Actually, sadly, I can.

Am I just reading this wrong, or with this bill is GWB acknowledging that the government asked telecommunications companies to do something illegal? Sounds like it to me. This guy just makes me sicker and sicker.

Oh, and by the way, keep those impeachment calls coming! Call your Representative, Senators, and Pelosi, and make your voice heard!