AP:A government official says the Justice Department is considering launching a grand jury investigation into whether one of its former leaders misled Congress about playing politics with hiring decisions.
WaPo: Schlozman resigned last August under fire for Senate testimony in which he acknowledged that he bragged about recruiting people who shared his conservative views for the civil rights unit. He also served as interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo., after Justice supervisors urged the previous prosecutor to resign. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
red_dwarf
· 1 year ago
Its a start. But unless they get Rove for the attorney scandals and Siegleman it probably won't amount to much. I don't have any hope that Rove will eventually get indicted - Bush will pardon him and the spineless Dems will look the other way.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Think about it. I mean, are the religious "cults" any more cultish than corporate cult-ure? It's all about power, you know.
Michael7820
· 1 year ago
You Want Change? Me too – but don't hold your breath… by Justin Raimondo
Apparently McCain was known as a screwup in the Navy. And apparently papa and grandpa bailed him out several times. My gracious this DOES sound familiar! Here is the link to the article... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-klein/mcc...
Michael7820
· 1 year ago
A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags. http://www.naturalnews.com/023445.html
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I'd actually trust the Scientologists over the Moonies.
Near as I can tell, the Scientologists don't have a political agenda.
The Moonies own a piece of the Republican Party.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Of course the Scientologists do. It's just not as apparent; their main goal at this point is to separate their members from their money--their political indoctrination is much more subtle.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Most churches separate their members from their money.
As for political indoctrination....I don't see it.
Link?
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Everything, everything, is political. Old article, but informative. I'm sure they're branching out even more.
Seems pretty weak to me. It's basically a blog about their crazy, but bi-partisan, attempts to outlaw psychiatry and psychiatric drugs.
I mean, there are tons of articles from respected sources on Fundametalist Christian ties to the Repub Party, or Moonie ties to the Repub Party. Of them shoveling money to the Repubs, getting voters to polls for the Repubs, owning media outlets to spread the Repub message.
I wouldn't put this into that category at all.
jwhit
· 1 year ago
Hubbard (Founder of Scientology is know for saving "Any human group is likely to elect only those who kill them" He based this on experiments from the 1950's. Germany declared Scientology a cult, filed lawsuits and later banned them from their country.
Scientology had a population reduction program to reduce 2.5% of the population. They have also been charged with murders, accused of mind control experiments in collaboration with our CIA.
JamesR
· 1 year ago
www.Clambake.org has more real history than you'd ever want about Scientology. So weird - you just can't make this up! (Except the people who made it up in the first place.) It was actually ghostwritten by Aleister Crowley. Ironically though, both he and Hubbard were drug addicts. Go Figure. Charles Manson was the last publicly known Scientologist to go so off the reservation with the Mind Control aspects they don't talk about. I'm sure the CIA has a big file on it.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
And BTW, where was ABC years ago when the bodies of soldiers were being spirited back into the states as cargo, as the fodder they were treated as?
ABC's "concern" at this point is a bit late. They are following, not leading, in the egregious treatment of injured veterans and those who gave their lives for a lie.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Good morning
....the Bush administration is pressuring a divided Iraqi government to approve a security agreement that could haunt Washington’s relations with Baghdad for years to come. The “strategic alliance” that President Bush is proposing eerily resembles, in spirit and in letter, a failed 1930 treaty between Britain and Iraq that prompted a nationalist eruption in Baghdad, a pro-Nazi military coup and a pogrom that foreshadowed the elimination of Baghdad’s ancient Jewish community.
The agreement, which Washington is pushing Baghdad to sign by July 31, would replace the United Nations mandate that now authorizes the American occupation.
Almost 80 years later, the Bush administration seeks a startlingly similar arrangement. While not formally a treaty (having been carefully crafted to avoid the requirement of Senate ratification), the wide-ranging pact that the United States proposes nearly replicates the 1930 accord. According to press reports based on leaks from the Iraqi Parliament, the pact envisions giving the Americans rights to as many as 58 military bases and control of Iraqi airspace. It would grant immunity from Iraqi laws to American military personnel. And it would empower American officials to detain suspected terrorists without the approval of Iraqi authorities.
The Associated Press, one of the nation’s largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s copyright.
McCain and his campaign may be hoping to bait Obama into ten proposed town hall meetings in order to infect him with the ineffable boringness wafting off of McCain and the audience thus far in this format, their version of a rope-a-dope strategy. But mama didn't raise any dopes in the Obama camp (his campaign has shown a remarkable discipline in refusing to be drawn into somebody else's ), and, as Whiskey Fire observes, "In politics, the person asking for the debates is always the one who knows he's losing. Always." So why should Obama extend his hand to assist the lower guy on the totem pole?
Just a bunch of yelling by the partisans and grandstanding by the pols.
That's why McCain is pushing for them instead of formal debates.
He knows he'd get his clock cleaned if he tried to match ideas with Obama.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Cindy McCain: drugs, husbands, cookie recipes! What CAN'T she steal?
dad
· 1 year ago
i still wouldn't call her what john (mccain) did
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
KarenMrsLloydRichards....someone told me once that you cannot copyright a cooking recipe. So maybe that is ONE item she did NOT steal. But that girl indeed looks like death warmed over. oh and BTW Karen...."funny thing a woman's career...and the rest of that great quote from "Eve"
Webster
· 1 year ago
And while they're at it, why don't they just rename "Morning Joe" to "Morning Republican?"
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Morning I-Had-A-Dead-Aide-In-My-Office
graymatter
· 1 year ago
Morning Wood.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Coffee and a Corpse
red_dwarf
· 1 year ago
I watched about 1 min of Morning Joe this morning and it was so sickening to see such brain dead bottom feeders that I had to turn it off. These people are soooooo phony they haven't a clue. What a joke of a show. I can't imagine how stupid one must be to listen to these pathetic excuses for news reporters.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Does Obama need the white working class vote, after all?
I'd say he needs some of it; after all, there are racists among us who would never vote for a black man, who don't understand that improvements for any underdog will benefit all. Everyone should get used to the notion that not all Americans can get., nor do all jobs require, a college degree--rather, we should enrich our elementary and secondary schools with better teaching of basics, not just for those university bound, but for all students. We will always need those who fix things, make beds, prepare our food, pick up our garbage, etc...pay them well enough so that perhaps their kids can go on to better paying jobs through education for jobs that will benefit the entire country, not a group of profiteers. But we also shouldn't be a country which itself becomes elitist and has to import workers to do menial jobs we should be doing ourselves.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Hillary proved a populist message will sell, even if the message comes from an unlikely source.
Obama's domestic and trade positions are pretty progressive, so he should be able to do better if he just fine tunes his rhetoric for working class audiences.
I don't think it's all race. Jesse Jackson did fairly well with working class whites in either 84 or 88 (I forget which.)
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
No, it's not all race...but I actually know people who will not vote for him because he's black. They outright state it...idiots who aren't doing very well, working menial jobs themselves and who secretively look up to the rich, who they want to emulate, people they think are superior because they have money. Ignorance breeds more ignorance in many cases.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Yeah, yeah....I know people like that too.
Half the reason they're unsuccessful is because they can't even correctly identify what's stopping them from being successful.
Arghhh.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
ABC is a fully owned subsidiary of the Disney Corporation. What the Mouse says is news, is news. No fear, it's just the Disneyfication of Amerika. It won't hurt a bit . . . unless you resist.
Q. Why does the Mouse wear white gloves? A. To cover the evidence.
graymatter
· 1 year ago
In related news, it has been revealed that the McCain team has had behind-the-scenes support from Xenu, 75-million year old dictator of the Galactic Confederacy, and that leaked plans for "vacation retreats" for cast-off campaign lobbyists to resorts near dormant volcanoes such as Mounts Rainier and Shasta might have a significance beyond that of a mere political junket.
Xenu was unavailable for comment.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
75 million years old?
Bet McCain calls him "Sonny."
Michael7820
· 1 year ago
Senator's Obama & McCain are part of a congress that has historically poor popularity ratings. Yet both are in the final stretch to be P.O.T.U.S. Talk about massive spin.
Spin sickness - nausea, sensory d I s O re I n tATiOn, dizziness, confusion & inability to determine reality brought about by excessive political lying or in Politically Correct speak, spin.
Spin sickness in the later stages is known to bring about totally nonsensical behavior and severally impaired judgment to the audience it is used on. After severe repeated exposure to political spin it is known to induce a zombie like trance, partisan infighting or childlike disposition in whole populationz. Spin also seems to make certain sheople think they are free & live in democratic republic & that they, their opinions & votes count.
Michael7820
· 1 year ago
MSM means, Mind Sequencing Methodologies, not mainstream media and they are the masters of psychobabbledoublecodespeak!!
Michael7820
· 1 year ago
Killing Truth You cannot kill truth. Try hiding, rewriting, classifying, censor, suppress, oppress or scapegoat the innocent!!! Nothing will kill the truth... Bury and burn, take a turn, devise what you will, the truth you will never kill... Billions killed yet the truth still has will... Truth seeks and creeps, a mind it will find creating a soul in kind... Truth will come in visions, dreams to young children!! Reflections of the truth are in the new born eyes.. Kill with abortion, truth takes to the sky...Fears cripple free speech because oligarchic entities are destroying democracy.... For the cause of security, military supremacy we allow the sacrifice of the needs of humanity.....Truth is genocide thrives and greed willingly blinds... Killing truth allows the elite and those drunk with power to have control in this final hour. Arrogant and willing to devour, all that is truly ours... Closing their eyes to the collective fate, hardening their hearts as millions get bad breaks... How futile are the attempts, killing truth is not meant... Killing truth only delays the inevitability of judgment day!!!
jr
· 1 year ago
"stay tuned to our investigation with Priests for Life about those awful people buying condoms and birth control pills"-ABC
JamesR
· 1 year ago
The Washington Times is an UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LOBBY, established by Sun Myung Moon, who literally thinks he's the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and the Korean CIA. Explicitly created to influence Congress and the Powers That Be in Washington, for the purpose of realizing the Moonie's extremely weird and violent apocalyptic scenario. "Arch conservative" is the closest term relative to their true agenda.
Growing up in and staying in DC through the 80s I remember it's creation as a very puzzled younger adult and am still astonished at it's brazen illegal status. Virtually nobody reads it. Very, very few buy it. It has NEVER made a profit. No one quotes it unless they have another source too, and I have heard of no one ever insulting their parakeet by using it to line their cage. They buy their own papers back to make it look like they have a circulation, which is the only similarity in this case with Scientology, thank God, or Xenu.
All the journalists who work there are Journalistic Whores (different from most real whores who are honorable,) and after tainting their reputations so can usually only get jobs for Fox after. Or PNAC.
Shame on lazy and ethicless ABC "News." I didn't think I could think less of them.
spencer11
· 1 year ago
ABC is becoming the new Fox News; when Tom Delay resigned, they were the only major network news division to not put it as their opening story; their journalists, like Jake Tapper and George Stepanolpolis(sp), present stories that lean toward the right. Pay close attention to their coverage of political events and their emphasis, and you'll see what I mean.
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AP:A government official says the Justice Department is considering launching a grand jury investigation into whether one of its former leaders misled Congress about playing politics with hiring decisions.
WaPo: Schlozman resigned last August under fire for Senate testimony in which he acknowledged that he bragged about recruiting people who shared his conservative views for the civil rights unit. He also served as interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo., after Justice supervisors urged the previous prosecutor to resign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
Me too – but don't hold your breath…
by Justin Raimondo
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12995
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-klein/mcc...
http://www.naturalnews.com/023445.html
Near as I can tell, the Scientologists don't have a political agenda.
The Moonies own a piece of the Republican Party.
As for political indoctrination....I don't see it.
Link?
http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/scientology...
I mean, there are tons of articles from respected sources on Fundametalist Christian ties to the Repub Party, or Moonie ties to the Repub Party. Of them shoveling money to the Repubs, getting voters to polls for the Repubs, owning media outlets to spread the Repub message.
I wouldn't put this into that category at all.
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/quotes.html
Scientology had a population reduction program to reduce 2.5% of the population. They have also been charged with murders, accused of mind control experiments in collaboration with our CIA.
ABC's "concern" at this point is a bit late. They are following, not leading, in the egregious treatment of injured veterans and those who gave their lives for a lie.
....the Bush administration is pressuring a divided Iraqi government to approve a security agreement that could haunt Washington’s relations with Baghdad for years to come. The “strategic alliance” that President Bush is proposing eerily resembles, in spirit and in letter, a failed 1930 treaty between Britain and Iraq that prompted a nationalist eruption in Baghdad, a pro-Nazi military coup and a pogrom that foreshadowed the elimination of Baghdad’s ancient Jewish community.
The agreement, which Washington is pushing Baghdad to sign by July 31, would replace the United Nations mandate that now authorizes the American occupation.
Almost 80 years later, the Bush administration seeks a startlingly similar arrangement. While not formally a treaty (having been carefully crafted to avoid the requirement of Senate ratification), the wide-ranging pact that the United States proposes nearly replicates the 1930 accord. According to press reports based on leaks from the Iraqi Parliament, the pact envisions giving the Americans rights to as many as 58 military bases and control of Iraqi airspace. It would grant immunity from Iraqi laws to American military personnel. And it would empower American officials to detain suspected terrorists without the approval of Iraqi authorities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/opinion/17mey...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/medi...
McCain and his campaign may be hoping to bait Obama into ten proposed town hall meetings in order to infect him with the ineffable boringness wafting off of McCain and the audience thus far in this format, their version of a rope-a-dope strategy. But mama didn't raise any dopes in the Obama camp (his campaign has shown a remarkable discipline in refusing to be drawn into somebody else's ), and, as Whiskey Fire observes, "In politics, the person asking for the debates is always the one who knows he's losing. Always." So why should Obama extend his hand to assist the lower guy on the totem pole?
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/blogs/wolcot...
Nothing substantial ever comes out of them.
Just a bunch of yelling by the partisans and grandstanding by the pols.
That's why McCain is pushing for them instead of formal debates.
He knows he'd get his clock cleaned if he tried to match ideas with Obama.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070...
I'd say he needs some of it; after all, there are racists among us who would never vote for a black man, who don't understand that improvements for any underdog will benefit all. Everyone should get used to the notion that not all Americans can get., nor do all jobs require, a college degree--rather, we should enrich our elementary and secondary schools with better teaching of basics, not just for those university bound, but for all students. We will always need those who fix things, make beds, prepare our food, pick up our garbage, etc...pay them well enough so that perhaps their kids can go on to better paying jobs through education for jobs that will benefit the entire country, not a group of profiteers. But we also shouldn't be a country which itself becomes elitist and has to import workers to do menial jobs we should be doing ourselves.
Obama's domestic and trade positions are pretty progressive, so he should be able to do better if he just fine tunes his rhetoric for working class audiences.
I don't think it's all race. Jesse Jackson did fairly well with working class whites in either 84 or 88 (I forget which.)
Half the reason they're unsuccessful is because they can't even correctly identify what's stopping them from being successful.
Arghhh.
Q. Why does the Mouse wear white gloves?
A. To cover the evidence.
Xenu was unavailable for comment.
Bet McCain calls him "Sonny."
Yet both are in the final stretch to be P.O.T.U.S. Talk about massive spin.
Spin sickness - nausea, sensory d I s O re I n tATiOn, dizziness, confusion & inability to determine reality brought about by excessive political lying or in Politically Correct speak, spin.
Spin sickness in the later stages is known to bring about totally nonsensical behavior and severally impaired judgment to the audience it is used on.
After severe repeated exposure to political spin it is known to induce a zombie like trance, partisan infighting or childlike disposition in whole populationz.
Spin also seems to make certain sheople think they are free & live in democratic republic & that they, their opinions & votes count.
You cannot kill truth. Try hiding, rewriting, classifying, censor, suppress, oppress or scapegoat the innocent!!! Nothing will kill the truth... Bury and burn, take a turn, devise what you will, the truth you will never kill... Billions killed yet the truth still has will... Truth seeks and creeps, a mind it will find creating a soul in kind... Truth will come in visions, dreams to young children!! Reflections of the truth are in the new born eyes.. Kill with abortion, truth takes to the sky...Fears cripple free speech because oligarchic entities are destroying democracy.... For the cause of security, military supremacy we allow the sacrifice of the needs of humanity.....Truth is genocide thrives and greed willingly blinds... Killing truth allows the elite and those drunk with power to have control in this final hour. Arrogant and willing to devour, all that is truly ours... Closing their eyes to the collective fate, hardening their hearts as millions get bad breaks... How futile are the attempts, killing truth is not meant... Killing truth only delays the inevitability of judgment day!!!
Growing up in and staying in DC through the 80s I remember it's creation as a very puzzled younger adult and am still astonished at it's brazen illegal status. Virtually nobody reads it. Very, very few buy it. It has NEVER made a profit. No one quotes it unless they have another source too, and I have heard of no one ever insulting their parakeet by using it to line their cage. They buy their own papers back to make it look like they have a circulation, which is the only similarity in this case with Scientology, thank God, or Xenu.
All the journalists who work there are Journalistic Whores (different from most real whores who are honorable,) and after tainting their reputations so can usually only get jobs for Fox after. Or PNAC.
Shame on lazy and ethicless ABC "News." I didn't think I could think less of them.