GOP strategist Karl Rove and former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards will debate the issues of the presidential campaign Sept. 26 as part of the university’s Distinguished Speakers Series, The Buffalo News has learned.
Subjects should contain, constitutional law, FISA, why it is important for an individual be under oath when they testify before congress, outing of CIA agent, politics within the justice department, etc.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Hopefully Edwards will wipe the floor with KKKarl's ass. : ) Oh, and expose him as the "guiding light" behind the McBush campaign.
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
Congressman Ron Paul has warned millions of radio listeners that the US is heading into a deadly confrontation with Iran, revealing his disbelief at members of Congress who have openly voiced support for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the country.
"If we do (attack) it is going to be a disaster," the Congressman told the Alex Jones show this Thursday.
I'm still ecstatic from celebrating the death of a fascist, good of him to keel over so the rest of us could go on with our lives.
But I'm also tired of hearing him praised on the media, including spineless Dems whose words don't condemn his racism and homophobia, among other issues. Why is it that progressive ideas can get pummeled in the press (including their proponents) but the elements of fascism and its supporters get a clean pass from the MSM? Oh don't tell me...it's a rhetorical question, of course.
I'm as "plain spoken" in my support of civil liberties and for a progressive US, but nobody gives me or other speakers the "respect" we deserve for truly wanting it, reserving their admiration, indeed their adulation, for absolutely evil and regressive ideologues who would destroy this country.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
I'm still ecstatic from celebrating the death of a fascist, good of him to keel over so the rest of us could go on with our lives.
But I'm also tired of hearing him praised on the media, including spineless Dems whose words don't condemn his racism and homophobia, among other issues. Why is it that progressive ideas can get pummeled in the press (including their proponents) but the elements of fascism and its supporters get a clean pass from the MSM? Oh don't tell me...it's a rhetorical question, of course.
I'm as "plain spoken" in my support of civil liberties and for a progressive US, but nobody gives me or other speakers the "respect" we deserve for truly wanting it, reserving their admiration, indeed their adulation, for absolutely evil and regressive ideologues who would destroy this country.
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· 1 year ago
Jesse Helms' last word: Fred Phelps...lives!
I read that comment last night and cracked up.
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· 1 year ago
I have a new democratic hero and his name is David Swanson. They got an almost unheard of chance to protest bush. It's great. The video is at the following link or youtube. I think bush should be protested wherever he's spotted. The wingnuts are so stupid, they believe freedom of speech means freedom to give a speech.
I guess all fascists aren't alike, though...remember that the Japanese population was interned after Pearl Harbor, but you didn't hear of German-Americans being interned even while German U-boats were busy off the east coast. Hell, the native fascists in this country were free to spout their hate. Don't you think that if those the US has jailed wholesale since 9/11 were all French or British, or a whiter shade of pale, that most would have already been released?
The victims of Katrina were jailed far longer than the ruling Fascists of this country will ever be.
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· 1 year ago
Read the comments after the article I posted. It was a link from Drudge and ever time he does that, tons of little fascist wingnuts leave comments if there's a comments section. Of course they're so stupid they don't believe their fascists because they don't wear any nazi insignia. But have no doubt, they're all for murdering of all of us for the bush maladministration. Bootlickers all.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Yes, I read some of them, but after a couple, you realize these people are simple fascists, and don't understand a thing about what the Constitution or Declaration of Independence actually means. Such is the state of our "educational system" -- a farce, really.
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· 1 year ago
I just finished the article you posted. Yeah, his call for "atonement" for me rings true for those who voted for bush twice. Late last night I was looking over a field beside a road. I gazed down it into the blacknesss where it disappeared. I had a forlorn post Independence Day feeling I've never experienced in my life. Not a good omen that I got...
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· 1 year ago
George Norey, who hosts Coast , kept trying to interject songs and speeches from individuals from the past about how great America is but it rang tin-ey and flat.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Many years ago I ran into Pete Seeger at a well known folk music shop on Harvard Square. I don't know if it is still there. Mister Seeger was charming, humble, very approachable, and had some very good advice as to what to do with my garage sale banjo (Throw it out, he said). I had most of his albums back then...mid sixties...and he was very much a part of the voice against the establishment and the Vietnam war which we all faced because of the draft. He was a major influence on my life as were Dylan, Baez, PP+M, and others of the commercial folk movement, although Pete was hardly commercial. The PBS American Masters docu on him is wonderful. For those of you who were not around in 1968, rent it.
maggiePA08
· 1 year ago
Pete has an upcoming show here in my neighborhood in August:
It's sad that true patriots like Seeger and others don't have the exposure that jingoistic, money grubbing assholes like Toby Keith and others have had. Hell, even the Dixie Chicks couldn't speak their minds without bad consequences.
Sad for this country, sad for the world that watches while incipient fascism takes over.
jr
· 1 year ago
great video, Chris
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Where have the Pete Seegers gone?
Butch1
· 1 year ago
I would call Bruce Springsteen as belonging in that category. Many are still around but older and not touring as often. They don't get the PR that many get in the mindless genres of today.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
I like Bruce but I am older I was thinking of people like Peter, Paul and Mary. I remember when Puff the magic dragon came out people were in such a out roar. They were thinking it had something to do with drugs. I never thought that. There were so many good singers during the late 50s and into the 60s. They were inspiring to young people. They were right out there in the front of demonstrations lines. We need more like that to take the lead. We have become afraid of our own shadows.
Butch1
· 1 year ago
I'm in my early 60s myself and remember the performers you mentioned very well. Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan were up there as well.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Right on I remember Joan and Bob. Where have this generations Dylan's, Baez, and Seegers and the Smothers Brothers. I guess we will have to wait when they start the draft up. That seems the only thing that will fire up this generation.
Butch1
· 1 year ago
I think you may be correct and it is only a matter of time until there is a draft. I guess we haven't lost enough soldiers in this war yet. I was drafted and know how it feels to have one's life taken away at the whim of the government to go fight a war that didn't need to be fought.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Than maybe the kids will finally get off their duffs and get in the streets. Than we can get out some of those great protest songs out. Remember Where have all the Flowers Gone? Those were the good old days. Kids today are to comfortable with the way things are. I know a young man that used to fly the idiot in chief around the world. They are so in love with the guy. I told him if you support this man why don't you join the military. Oh no, no I'm not a volunteer. I said I guess its ok for you to sit it out while some poor guy that cannot go to college goes. What the hell are they going to do if they get a draft.
Butch1
· 1 year ago
Unfortunately, like their "Idiot-in-Chief" they are part of the "Rah-rah" squad. They wrap themselves in the flag with appropriate holy book in hand and cheer on the real patriots and heroes who step up and get in harm's way.They call what they are doing patriotic. I don't. They always have excuses for not going and their idea of supporting the troops and the war is being in the "Rah-rah" squad.
You asked what they will do if there is a draft? What they usually do. If their parents are in a position to keep them out of harm's way like Bush and his family did, that will work, or they will have a sympathetic physician diagnose something like Rush Limpwad had, a cyst on his backside or flat feet or something else to keep them out.
It is always the underprivileged poor or middle-class who become cannon fodder or who cannot afford to go to school to have a deferment. Mr. Cheney and his five deferments ( what a man ) had the gaul to say when asked why he didn't fight in the Vietnam Conflict , " I had more important things to do or was it I had better things to do." I know I wasn't given a chance to make my own decisions on this, why was he? That is rubbing it in the faces of those who fought over there,such as myself , by implying he was better than the rest of us. Boy look at his machismo now. He is such a war hawk when his own ass isn't on the line. Now, there are republicans who did go to war during that time but many of us were drafted to keep the war machine going and 58,000 dead later with hundreds of thousands wounded, are the results of these macho cowards who use other people's kids to hide behind to achieve their goals. War = money and profits and as long as the rich don't have to put their own lives on the line, everything is fine.
Speaking of war songs, the ultimate one in my book was written by Buffy Saint-Marie entitled, " The Universal Soldier." If you're not familiar with it, look it up and listen to the lyrics. They still ring true today. My next favorite would be, Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," sung by Peter, Paul & Mary. A real classic.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
So true ,so true. Those were some good songs. I get sad even today thinking about the soldiers that died during the VN conflict. So many wonderful people that died.
Butch1
· 1 year ago
Sadly, we're revisiting our past by creating the same sorrow for the families of fallen soldiers in today's debacle. And what for? Oil fields. They should be renamed Blood Fields after those who gave their lives for the rich and their never ending battles that make profits.
Butch1
· 1 year ago
Yes, it was unfortunate that this government yet again, interfered with a person's livelihood by using fear against them. The threat of Communism what always hanging over the head of many Peace loving folksingers of his time. This government went after actors, producers, directors and anyone leaning toward the left by calling them communist sympathizers or worse, communists. Careers were ruined as a result of this very dark period of our time when the republican right was again trying to scare the citizens of this country. It is unfortunate, we have not learned a thing in the interim. Pete Seeger , Woody Guthrie, and a host of others are the true heroes of that period in my opinion. In spite of the odds, they were true to their message and the truth eventually wins out against the fascists of this world.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
The corporate state hated Pete Seeger as did cross-dressing closet case J.. Edger Hoover (nothing sucks like a Hoover).
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
Welcome to the Banana Republic called The United States of America:
Another problem for Mr. Dollar is that it will be several months before his actions take effect. Officials with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have informed Bernanke about a plan that would have been unheard-of in the past: a general examination of the US financial system. The IMF’s board of directors has ruled that a so-called Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) is to be carried out in the United States. It is nothing less than an X-ray of the entire US financial system.
As part of the assessment, the Fed, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the major investment banks, mortgage banks and hedge funds will be asked to hand over confidential documents to the IMF team. They will be required to answer the questions they are asked during interviews. Their databases will be subjected to so-called stress tests — worst-case scenarios designed to simulate the broader effects of failures of other major financial institutions or a continuing decline of the dollar.
Under its bylaws, the IMF is charged with the supervision of the international monetary system. Roughly two-thirds of IMF members — but never the United States — have already endured this painful procedure.
For seven years, US President George W. Bush refused to allow the IMF to conduct its assessment. Even now, he has only given the IMF board his consent under one important condition. The review can begin in Bush’s last year in office, but it may not be completed until he has left the White House. This is bad news for the Fed chairman.
When the final report on the risks of the US financial system is released in 2010 — and it is likely to cause a stir internationally — only one of the people in positions of responsiblity today will still be in office: Ben Bernanke.
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http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/384676.html
Subjects should contain, constitutional law, FISA, why it is important for an individual be under oath when they testify before congress, outing of CIA agent, politics within the justice department, etc.
"If we do (attack) it is going to be a disaster," the Congressman told the Alex Jones show this Thursday.
http://infowars.net/articles/july2008/040708Ron...
McCain says he supports Bush 100%
But I'm also tired of hearing him praised on the media, including spineless Dems whose words don't condemn his racism and homophobia, among other issues. Why is it that progressive ideas can get pummeled in the press (including their proponents) but the elements of fascism and its supporters get a clean pass from the MSM? Oh don't tell me...it's a rhetorical question, of course.
I'm as "plain spoken" in my support of civil liberties and for a progressive US, but nobody gives me or other speakers the "respect" we deserve for truly wanting it, reserving their admiration, indeed their adulation, for absolutely evil and regressive ideologues who would destroy this country.
But I'm also tired of hearing him praised on the media, including spineless Dems whose words don't condemn his racism and homophobia, among other issues. Why is it that progressive ideas can get pummeled in the press (including their proponents) but the elements of fascism and its supporters get a clean pass from the MSM? Oh don't tell me...it's a rhetorical question, of course.
I'm as "plain spoken" in my support of civil liberties and for a progressive US, but nobody gives me or other speakers the "respect" we deserve for truly wanting it, reserving their admiration, indeed their adulation, for absolutely evil and regressive ideologues who would destroy this country.
I read that comment last night and cracked up.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2...
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/chris...
I guess all fascists aren't alike, though...remember that the Japanese population was interned after Pearl Harbor, but you didn't hear of German-Americans being interned even while German U-boats were busy off the east coast. Hell, the native fascists in this country were free to spout their hate. Don't you think that if those the US has jailed wholesale since 9/11 were all French or British, or a whiter shade of pale, that most would have already been released?
The victims of Katrina were jailed far longer than the ruling Fascists of this country will ever be.
http://www.st94.com/music/2008_08.html
Sad for this country, sad for the world that watches while incipient fascism takes over.
You asked what they will do if there is a draft? What they usually do. If their parents are in a position to keep them out of harm's way like Bush and his family did, that will work, or they will have a sympathetic physician diagnose something like Rush Limpwad had, a cyst on his backside or flat feet or something else to keep them out.
It is always the underprivileged poor or middle-class who become cannon fodder or who cannot afford to go to school to have a deferment. Mr. Cheney and his five deferments ( what a man ) had the gaul to say when asked why he didn't fight in the Vietnam Conflict , " I had more important things to do or was it I had better things to do." I know I wasn't given a chance to make my own decisions on this, why was he? That is rubbing it in the faces of those who fought over there,such as myself , by implying he was better than the rest of us. Boy look at his machismo now. He is such a war hawk when his own ass isn't on the line. Now, there are republicans who did go to war during that time but many of us were drafted to keep the war machine going and 58,000 dead later with hundreds of thousands wounded, are the results of these macho cowards who use other people's kids to hide behind to achieve their goals. War = money and profits and as long as the rich don't have to put their own lives on the line, everything is fine.
Speaking of war songs, the ultimate one in my book was written by Buffy Saint-Marie entitled, " The Universal Soldier." If you're not familiar with it, look it up and listen to the lyrics. They still ring true today. My next favorite would be, Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," sung by Peter, Paul & Mary. A real classic.
Another problem for Mr. Dollar is that it will be several months before his actions take effect. Officials with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have informed Bernanke about a plan that would have been unheard-of in the past: a general examination of the US financial system. The IMF’s board of directors has ruled that a so-called Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) is to be carried out in the United States. It is nothing less than an X-ray of the entire US financial system.
As part of the assessment, the Fed, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the major investment banks, mortgage banks and hedge funds will be asked to hand over confidential documents to the IMF team. They will be required to answer the questions they are asked during interviews. Their databases will be subjected to so-called stress tests — worst-case scenarios designed to simulate the broader effects of failures of other major financial institutions or a continuing decline of the dollar.
Under its bylaws, the IMF is charged with the supervision of the international monetary system. Roughly two-thirds of IMF members — but never the United States — have already endured this painful procedure.
For seven years, US President George W. Bush refused to allow the IMF to conduct its assessment. Even now, he has only given the IMF board his consent under one important condition. The review can begin in Bush’s last year in office, but it may not be completed until he has left the White House. This is bad news for the Fed chairman.
When the final report on the risks of the US financial system is released in 2010 — and it is likely to cause a stir internationally — only one of the people in positions of responsiblity today will still be in office: Ben Bernanke.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,151...
Bet you will not ever see an article like this in the MSM….