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AMERICAblog: Tuesday Morning Open Thread

  • Gray62 · 1 year ago
    "One more week til North Carolina and Indiana."

    Even more reason to think about the possible consequences of the Supreme Court backing of the voter ID law!
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    LA Times questions evidence of nuclear plant that was bombed by Israel.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2...

    A professor from Minnesota questons whether photo shop was used.

    In addition there is no cooling tower for the reactor nor any of the other buildings usually surrounding such a facility.
    Senator Feinstein told Blitzer that they were briefed by Hayden, Admiral McConnel and a security advisor. She told Wolf
    "Look, none of us on the committee are nuclear experts. We take the views of nuclear experts. According to those experts, the answer is yes, this was a nuclear facility. I would be very surprised if it turned out to be anything other than that."

    I think we heard this shit before about a mobile Germ Warfare lab, aluminum tubes, etc., etc.
    Our politicians who consider themselves the elite can't find their ass with both hands. Another free pass for Bushco. They continue to fall in line, never question are never skeptical. If the Administration says so it must be true.
  • bulldog909 · 1 year ago
    That type of reactor does not use a cooling tower. Regarding the mobile germ warfare lab, that truck with the secret compartment with a fermenter certainly was not used t make hydrogen for weather balloons. It is far easier and faster and cheaper to make hydrogen with water and electricity, and there is no reason to do it in secret.
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    bulldog909: read the article. I see your allegiance so the empty truck which your buddy Colon Powell said was a mobile germ warfare lab now has a secret compartment. You fuckers just spin shit
    into gold. By the way who says it was for weather balloons. Liars and the liars who repeat their lies.
  • bulldog909 · 1 year ago
    Regarding the reactor, are you disputing that some reactor types do not use cooling towers? If so, you are misinformed. Regarding the truck, the photos showed clearly that the fermenting equipment was hidden behind a false wall in the truck. Do you deny this as well? Look up the photos on the web. As to who made the claim of weather balloons, that was the sceptics in the CIA/State Dept that were the so called experts that debunked the theory that the truck was for germ warfare. Are you now saying they were wrong? They were the people supporting your position, fool.
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    I may be a fool, in fact I admit I have been fooled many times over by the Bush Administration but you provided no proof of anything. How about this article

    Iraqi mobile labs nothing to do with germ warfare, report finds

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/15/iraq

    In reading your post I am not sure what you are claiming other than you are obviously a shill for the GOP. Please post where your brethern can copulate with your ideas.

    In regards to cooling towers the piece I attached made that claim not me.
  • butchcjg · 1 year ago
    Another reason why Obama should NOT agree to public financing: clearly McCain has shown he'll skirt the law in every way possible.
  • DonQ · 1 year ago
    I haven't seen much of the following in the news:
    "Judicial Watch Calls on FEC to Investigate McCain Presidential Fundraising Luncheon Held in London"
    http://tinyurl.com/4ctukh
  • Webster · 1 year ago
    4056 Amerlican deaths in Iraq as of this morning.
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    Questions the press should ask John McCain:

    Does Cindy have you on a weekly allowance?

    What is the allowance Cindy gives you?

    Why do you want to stay in Iraq for 100 years?

    What chores do you have to do for your allowance?

    Is it true your ATM PIN is: C I N D Y # ?
  • ClayPotts · 1 year ago
    The Supreme Court's ruling on the Indiana voter ID is a slap in the face to all Americans. Texas wiil go the way of Indiana in 2009 unless they are stopped.

    http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do;j...

    Vote for Democrats on all levels of government in 2008...or by 2009, your chance may be gone.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    lynchie, everyone should be questioning anything that comes out of this regime. That Feinstein doesn't is very, very troubling. The rollover Congress strikes again.

    And how much is Mrs. McCrazy donating as "in-kind" campaign help?
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    Claypots: I wonder why the DNC hasn't been apeshit about this issue. All the politicians have been silent-- guess the minorities don't matter afterall.
  • michaelt · 1 year ago
    no matter what, I will not vote for hillary.
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    Will Cindy be known as the First Lady or the First ATM?
  • dad · 1 year ago
    4056 Amerlican deaths in Iraq as of this morning.

    and the deadliest month since Sep. 2007
  • bumpkis · 1 year ago
    Two Israeli firsters discussing the alleged Syrian reactor...all you need to know....with photoshopped pics too.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2...

    BLITZER: But you believe -- based on what you know, Senator Feinstein, you believe that this was a nuclear reactor that North Korea was constructing in Syria?
    FEINSTEIN: Look, none of us on the committee are nuclear experts. We take the views of nuclear experts. According to those experts, the answer is yes, this was a nuclear facility. I would be very surprised if it turned out to be anything other than that.
  • bumpkis · 1 year ago
    Sorry Lynchie, didn't scroll down far enough....
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Good morning. Walpugisnacht approaches.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    The voter ID laws smack heavily of a "poll tax" in their application, requiring people to have birth certificates, naturalization papers, social security cards, etc. which can cost a lot of money to obtain if you don't have copies. Not everyone drives nor has a picture ID (available in states for non-drivers). I'm disappointed in Stevens, who wrote the opinion for the rightwing majority.

    If states are going to require this, they should waive fees, have a mobile voter registration unit for those forced into this class, etc. No one should have to pay a penny to exercise their right to vote. At any rate, there will probably be a slew of lawsuits (although after elections) where people are turned away from polling places without "proper" ID.
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    bumpkis: not to worry. Interesting though that the pols in Washington still don't see that their lack of interest is why we have 4056 dead in Iraq and 75,000 injured and maimed. Of course they are experts Diane you ignorant slut.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    Obama is still running about 14 pts ahead of Clinton in NC, even though her camp is trying to keep the Wright "controversy" alive and she and Bill are appearing before almost all-white crowds with their coded messages.

    And in Indiana, their 527 is running a $700K anti-Obama ad on jobs and thinking about the same in NC (although I haven't seen any yet). Interersting that Clintonites thought it necessary to form this 527 in Feb. in a primary, when she was lagging behind in donations directly to her campaign and loaned herself $5 million. Note that AFSME govt employees contributed $1 million to this farce...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Leadershi...
  • bulldog909 · 1 year ago
    Joe, you need to give up on the jet non-story. Hillary flies around in corporate Gulfstream 5's and pays only first class fare, just like McCain flying on his family's jet, it's legal. Can you comprehend that? LEGAL, and done by every candidate. If anything should be scrutinized it's what the corporation that loaned the jet to Hillary got/wanted in exchange, there is potential influence buying. McCain's use of his family jet is hardly a potential conflict of interest .
  • bulldog909 · 1 year ago
    New democrat ad hits new low by editing McCain's speech regarding Iraq to change what he said. McCain replies "Maybe 100 years, as long as Americans aren't being killed or harmed, that would be fine with me". Dean edits it to "Maybe 100 years, that would be fine with me". This is just simply fraud on the part of the DNC. It is pathetic you resort to lying to try to gain support. I guess we can now splice together bits of every speech Obama ever made to make him appear to say all sorts of crazy things, and that would be OK, right? Like "I...don't...like the ...typical white person" "I want to....surrender...to Islamic terrorists" How will that be, Mr Dean?
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Gramps living off the chippie's beer money.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    By the way, did we ever see Gramps' health records?

    Seems like there's a new lump on his face.
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    I'm with you Bush_Bites; when are we going to see independent assessments of Insane's medical and much more importantly, his psychiatric evaluations? Nevermind the lumps on his face, of much more concern should be the atrophy inside his head. The flip-flopping, so-called, the not remembering on Friday what he said on Monday, is not a good sign. and just like with old Hil, I don't think "sleep-deprivation" has anything to do with it. Insane isa dangerous lunatic who should not be allowed anywhere near levers of power. He may even be a worse liar and fabricator than Hil.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    McCrazy is willing to kill troops just to get Wingnut support:

    Three years before the Arizona Republican argued on the campaign trail that U.S. forces could be in Iraq for 100 years in the absence of violence, he decried the very concept of a long-term troop presence.

    In fact, when asked specifically if he thought the U.S. military should set up shop in Iraq along the lines of what has been established in post-WWII Germany or Japan -- something McCain has repeatedly advocated during the campaign -- the senator offered nothing short of a categorical "no."

    "I would hope that we could bring them all home," he said on MSNBC. "I would hope that we would probably leave some military advisers, as we have in other countries, to help them with their training and equipment and that kind of stuff."


    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/28/mccain...
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Former Reagan aide says McCrazy Administration would be "Neocon Redux" :

    Speaking Monday at a fascinating on-the-record session on U.S.-Russia relations at the Nixon Center, former Reagan administration official Robert McFarlane declared that McCain's first year as president would be "neocon redux." McFarlane, who was Reagan's national security advisor and who supports McCain's candidacy, emphasized that he wasn't speaking as a member of McCain's team, but as a practical realist and private citizen. His remarks were uttered in a calm tone, and all the more blistering for it. McFarlane pointed out that Ronald Reagan was dealing with a declining Soviet Union and from a position of strength, while McCain would be dealing with a resurgent Russia, one that it would be foolish to heedlessly antagonize. According to McFarlane, "the youngsters" would run foreign policy the first year and then likely be "fired" by the second after they mess up.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/m...
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    Both the Clinton and McCrazy camps are trying to destroy Obama because they're wrapped up in special interests while Obama does not take the money of special interests. The corporatists will do everything in their power to make sure they have their candidate at the helm of this country and if the People don't take back their govt, we are doomed as a nation.

    Besides, we just can't have a black president, you know [snark]. Too many prefer our corrupt white corporatists at all cost, even to the destruction of the US. Sadly, too many in the 21st century are just becoming number, dumber and caught up in the glitz and immediate gratification that Corporate America offers, selling themselves out in the process.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    "Cindy's passed out from her Xanax. I'll be over in 10 minutes"-McCombover to Vicki Iseman
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Looks like Hillary has another Misinformation moment. While in Indiana she has started criticizing Bush for loss of jobs overseas, ONLY problem is the company she is specifically speaking about took their jobs overseas under Bill Clinton's watch. It never ceases to amaze me how Hillary distorts actual facts.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/clin...
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    aquarius2: You are too kind in referring to Hil's "misinformation moment," and that she "distorts actual facts." Whta she is doing, again and again, is LYING. The racist monster bitch is not about to let the facts, the truth, whatever get between her and her increasingly manic lust for the oval office. She needs to be stamped out like the emdemic disease she is.
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    Older and Wiser: the special interest groups want Hillarious or McStain, I agree. The status quo will disappear. The access to corporate welfare and kickbacks will disappear under Obama and how will America continue to pillage the population with an elitist black man at the helm. McStain simply says whatever pops into his addled brain and Hillary conceals her racism by continuing to say things like "people like you". We are back to the days of Lincoln and keeping them down on the farm where they belong.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Mark Karlin over on BuzzFlash nails it again with his piece on Wright, the media and race.

    http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/086
  • bulldog909 · 1 year ago
    Talk about a ridiculous article! Look it's pretty simple. People question Obama because he is an unknown, with only 3 years of experience and exposure on the national level. So they look at the people he associates with. Bill Ayres, terrorist bomber who still advocates violence.His spiritual advisor and 20 year close friend Rev Wright, who claims the gov't invented AIDS to kill black peopleand preaches "God Damn America" from the pulpit. Who cares if he served in the marines ? That does not prove he loves this country. So did Lee Harvey Oswald. Navy man John Walker sold secrets to the Russians for decades. It isn't racism to question Obama, it's common sense. ANd it's fair to look at those he has close associations with. Libs all want to point to crazy man Hagee. He is not a close associate of McCain, he has no multi year connection to him, he doesn't go over to his home for dinner parties.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    blldog909

    Libs want to point to Hagee because he has endorsed John McCain. McCain sought out and has gladly accepted that endorsement. Hagee is very controversial and yet McCain sought out his endorsement whereas Obama is being trashed for attending church.
  • bulldog909 · 1 year ago
    Wel, not exactly. Obama has a 20 year relationship with this guy. He married him, baptised his kids, named his book after one of his sermons, refers to him as his Uncle. Obama chose to associate with him, to support him, give money to him, and the man is a fruitcake - just like Hagee.The difference is are you supporting them or are they supporting you. In one case, they are endorseing YOUR views, in the other, you are endorsing THEIR views. That's the difference.
  • shanobama · 1 year ago
    bulldog, did you see the flimsy evidence of the Supreme court.? One case from the 1800's. A couple other weak instances. One time registering, yea, show ID.

    When I vote every election, I should not have to. Two different things.
  • bulldog909 · 1 year ago
    Without showing ID to vote, how do we verify that it is YOU who are voting, as opposed to someone claiming to be you? (TO for instance vote for dead or disabled people like they do in Chicago?)
  • homebuilder · 1 year ago
    They used to use just the signature for proof like banks. Why isn't that good enough any more?
  • shanobama · 1 year ago
    Yep, homebuilder.

    I SIGN the voter roles. And my signature is really, really hard to forge.
  • Hangtown Danile · 1 year ago
    Albert Hoffman RIP. And thanks for some real fun times!
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    If you don't have a birth certificate, a drivers license, a utility bill receipt, a state ID, a social security card or a voter registration card?; then really, who the hell are you? The supreme court made the right decision.
  • shanobama · 1 year ago
    Busboy, this bill requires PHOTO I.D. Which means you have to take you birth certificate to the DMV to get a photo ID.

    In this economy, where people are working 2 or 3 jobs, taking care of kids or their sick parents, it is a burden. If the state is going to REQUIRE this, they must spend some money to help people, make sure they have one. For a fair vote the state is going to have to spend some money on this. Not a conservative position.

    When I go to vote, my name is on the roles. I use my name and they check me off...if someone then comes in to vote in my name-too damn bad. One vote per line on the voting roles prevents fraud. Simple. The supremes are wrong on this.

    As for McCain: his campaign finance bill EXCLUDED family owned jets. He was thinking only of himself on this. Yea, I'll write a bill that will benefit me, and only me and the other rich guys who have a private jet in the family. sick & slick.
  • bulldog909 · 1 year ago
    Prevents fraud? Really? How does it prevent one person from registering 50 times and voting under 50 names, if no id is required? Or prevent illegals from voting, since they can register without showing proof of citizenship? I agree the ID should be free. I would issue a voter id card with a photo and digital thumbprint encoded after people provide positve proof of citizenship, and would validate it at the polls before allowing people to vote. Now that would reduce fraud.