Wassup Circa 2008

Time for Some Campaignin'

KO Special Comment FISA Veto - Feb 14, 2008

A part of what I will say, was said here on Jan. 31. Unfortunately it is both sadder and truer now than it was then.

“Who’s to blame?” Mr. Bush also said this afternoon, “Look, these folks in Congress passed a good bill late last summer.... The problem is, they let the bill expire. My attitude is: If the bill was good enough then, why not pass the bill again?”

Like the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Or Executive Order 90-66. Or The Alien and Sedition Acts. Or slavery.

Mr. Bush, you say that our ability to track terrorist threats will be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger. Yet you have weakened that ability!

You have subjected us, your citizens, to that greater danger! This, Mr. Bush, is simple enough for even you to understand.

- Keith Olbermann

Source: Countdown with Keith Olbermann (Complete Transcript)

"Taxi To The Dark Side" - Trailer

This documentary murder mystery examines the death of an Afghan taxi driver at Bagram Air Base from injuries inflicted by U.S. soldiers. In an unflinching look at the Bush administration's policy on torture, the filmmaker behind Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room takes us from a village in Afghanistan to Guantanamo and straight to the White House.

Obama on "60 Minutes"

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?

KO Special Comment on FISA - Jan 31 08

Once again, Olbermann hits the idiot right on the head

Noam Chomsky On CBC

I know I know... More videos, but when it comes to Chomsky, I just can't resist.

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Barack Obama interview w/ Keith Olbermann & Chris Mathews

935 Whitehouse Lies That Led To War

I'm surprised that no one had done this before. The Centre For Public Integrity has a searchable database of all the lies.

Keith Olbermann on Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers is an excellent interviewer, and with an interviewee like Olbermann, you know this is a must watch. Take twenty minutes out of your day to see the interview from PBS' Bill Moyers' Journal. AIR DATE: December 15, 2007

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Bill Maher on Religion - New Rules RTwMB

More blasphemy - Enjoy :)

KO Special Comment on NIE and Iran

Olbermann & Maddow on DHS Failures

A Love Story In Three Pictures

A friend e-mailed me this this morning... tee hee hee.

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Noam Chomsky on US policy towards Iran

Noam Chomsky is be far one of the smartest people I have ever come across! This is a MUST watch!

That's it US Government... you never get to tell anyone what to do again!

Where to now?

Readers may have noticed that lately I've posted very little as of late, and of those few posts even fewer have any commentary from me. The reason for this is simple - I'm exhausted.

I realise this tiny piece of the web is less than insignificant and will not change the world, but there was a time I had faith that things would get better. Last year in the United States, the Democrats won the House and the Senate sparking an ember of hope within me that all the wrongs of the six years previous would be righted as much as it could have been. But here we are, almost eleven months later and NOTHING!

The Democratic Party talked tough (well tough for the Democratic Party anyway) because they realised that the people wanted an end to war, so much so that the last mid-term elections became, in essence, became a referendum on ending the war. Pro-Iraq War? Vote GOP. Anti-Iraq War? Vote Democratic. The Democrats won. The people had spoken.

However, Bush's veto power has all but stripped the House of any power. If Mr. Bush does not get where we wants, he will, and has, vetoed his way there. Upon challenging a presidential veto the Congress, it seems, are unable to uphold said challenge. If memory serves me correctly (I have to go by memory as I am unable to find Bush's veto record ANYWHERE on line), prior to the last mid-term elections in Nov, 2006, he had used his veto power once in almost six years (he vetoed stem-cell research). In the past year, he's used it at least four or perhaps even five times and every single time his veto has withstood any challenge it had faced.

Now with Bush poised for yet another veto this time to bar $606 Billion for health, education and labour programmes I just know he will get his way yet again.

I feel all vented out. When things were bad I had used all the superlatives in my vocabulary to lambaste the current administration and policy makers, now that things are worse, I find I have nowhere to go.

How to make an angry American

This apparently came out in the summer, this is the first time I've seen it... All I could do was shake my head.

Wanna see what $87,000,000,000.00 looks like?

On top right of TFTH, there a little counter that estimates how much money has been spent on the Iraqi war, courtesy of costofwar.com. At the time of writing, it currently sits at $453,005,095,656. As mere mortals, can we even begin to conceptualise what that kind of money would look like? How much room one would need to store it? I came across this today. It shows what $87,000,000,000.00 would like and then what $315 Billion would look like.

Make sure you read the very bottom...

Olbermann's Special Comment - Sept 4, 07

You know, after all detritus this administration has put the world through, I keep asking myself how much more can we take? Surely, we have reached the end of our tether? Evidently we have not.

I am flabbergasted beyond believe. This is the sort of stuff that incites civil unrest and sometimes even revolutions. Since the dawn of democracy (what ever the hell that means these days), when has a populace ever been this marginalised without consequence?