Wassup Circa 2008

Ron Paul Slams Republican Warmongers

I've said it before and I'll say it again, this guy makes more and more sense every time he says something.

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)

Wexler Confronts Condi on Iraq War Lies

Rice is so full of shit, her ass is jealous.

Noam Chomsky On CBC

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

PART I


PART II

Quoting... Sir Winston Churchill

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Bill Maher on Religion - New Rules RTwMB

More blasphemy - Enjoy :)

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.

Keith Olbermann- 21,000 more troops

Keith Olbeman on a special comment about the recent launch of a new Campaign in the middle east. Again, I'll let Keith do all the talking.

Olbermann's Special Comment on Bush and "Sacrifice" (Jan. 2, 2007)

"Atone. Sacrifice, Mr. Bush? No, sir, this is not "sacrifice." This has now become "human sacrifice." And it must stop. And you can stop it. Next week, make us all look wrong. Our meaningless sacrifice in Iraq must stop. And you must stop it." Olbermann speaks so very eloquently, so I won't dilute his words with mine