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So former Vice President Dick "go fuck yourself" Cheney is "offended as hell" that he might find himself in some legal hot water over the Attorney General's investigations into CIA torture tactics that he himself approved of. See, Dick Cheney has viewed himself as being above the Law for some time now so I believe he genuinely is deluded enough to feel he has some valid point of contention in this but the truth of the matter remains that Dick Cheney broke the Law and he should have to pay for it like the rest of us poor blighters who groan under the weight of the American Justice system. But ol' Dick is rich and his wealth can buy him out from under any legal jackpot so just why is he bitching? Oh sure, Cheney dresses up his bitching in national security issues to make it seem like he cares about America more than his own wrinkley skin but we know that isn't true because he was part of the crew that allowed 9/11 to happen and made huge profits off the so called "good wars" of Iraq and Afghanistan not to mention his lucrative deal with the U.S. government to build all those detention cells down in Guantanamo Bay. So what are you trying to tell us Dick? What are you afraid the American people might find out about? When Karl Rove approached George Dubya Bush he already had key players like Dick Cheney in place. So while Dick Cheney began selling of pieces of Iraq to the highest bidders in the world and planning his administration over the American people, Rove pitched his scheme to Dubya who ate it up. Dubya would have to do no real work or decision making as President all he had to do was be the face of the White House just as he was the face as governor of Texas where his staff strip mined the state of every natural resource they could get their greedy hands on. Dubya was skilled at doing nothing and winning over simple folk with his not-quite-right Texas accent and charm so this would be easy for him. As for decision making, it would be split between Rove and acting President Cheney. So for 8 years Dubya kicked up his feet, had a drink every now and then and vacationed, vacationed, vacationed even after 9/11 happened. Why? Well why not? Nothing at the White House was ever his problem after all. And if a few Americans like me thought that was inappropriate (a commander in chief should always be on duty during times of war especially when they go around procliaming themselves the war president) so what? Just call them disloyal aiders of the enemy and problem solved! So while Karl pushed his social agenda on America, ol' Dick Cheney went to work on his shadow government and if you don't believe Cheney was really in charge all I can ask is 'who was rushed to the bunker in an undisclosed location first?' while Bush circled the skies haplessly aboard Air Force One and there and there's your answer. Cheney had done a fantastic job of selling Iraq before he even hit office in 2000. Now all he needed was a war to make his schemes come true. Now folks if I have a list of Iraqi investors in my pocket and I needed an excuse to invade Iraq, what do you suppose I might be willing to do to insure that money makes it into my coffers? Worse still, this is all fact. Look it up yourself. It is a matter of public record. What would you do to make millions? What would Dick Cheney do? Well he might allow or help participate in a crime so unimagineable that no American would ever want to believe it even though there's a lot of reasons to be suspicious. Evidence goes overlooked because the American people need to believe terrorists attacked us on 9/11 rather than members of their own government! Unfortunately there's too much evidence to the contrary. From the Army helicopter that shot a missle into the Pentagon (you can see it on the doctored footage released by the FBI when you adjust the settings right) to yellow cake uranium to Cheney's staunch refusal to swear under oath about the events of 9/11 because of some imaginary executive priveliege cooked up just to keep him from testifying. And don't we all wish Clinton had executive priveliege? Anyway so Cheney is in deep but protected but needs to look and act the part of concerned acting president so he began to advance torture practices as sure proof the American government was taking this whole terrorism thing seriously and would stop at nothing to prevent another 9/11 (which he helped with). It's a famous strategy when a white person is involved with a crime to blame colored people and so that's what he did. Blamed the Arabs and tortured them to stop crimes he himself committed! So yeah, I imagine Cheney is a little upset that his war crimes might still come to light and he still might have to answer for them with what little life he has left pumping through his plastic heart. So shut up Dick and go fuck yourself. I for one would like to know exactly what you did during your illegitimate time in office. If you have nothing to hide, that shouldn't be a problem. But we all know you do have something to hide don't we you old fossil? Or to paraphrase Shakespeare, The old man doth protest to much, methinks.

Republican hopeful "jokes" about hunting and shooting the President

www.macleans.ca/world/wire/article.jsp?content=w271647019 August 27, 2009 - 20:03 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOISE, Idaho - An Idaho Republican gubernatorial hopeful insists he was only joking when he said he'd buy a license to hunt President Barack Obama. Rex Rammell, a long-shot candidate slated to run against incumbent C.L. "Butch" Otter in the May 2010 Republican primary, made the comment at a rally Tuesday in Twin Falls where talk turned to the state's planned wolf hunt, for which hunters must purchase an $11.50 wolf tag. The hunt is due to begin on Tuesday. When an audience member shouted a question about "Obama tags," Rammell responded, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of those." Rammell told The Associated Press Thursday he sees no reason to apologize for the comment because it was just a joke. "What I would say to all my Democrat Idahoans: Take a deep breath and relax," he said. "We're not going to go out and hunt Obama." He also told the Times-News newspaper, "I would never support him being assassinated." After Rammell's comment was published in the Times-News, he said one person sent him an email indicating he would ask the FBI for an investigation. Threatening the president can be a felony punishable by five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. "I'm probably safe," Rammell said. "I'm not the one that started the whole thing." Debbie Dujanovic Bertram, an FBI spokeswoman in Salt Lake City, said the agency couldn't comment on whether it was investigating or if it had received a complaint. "I think the Republican Party in this state and elsewhere would be well served by making it clear those types of comments are very inappropriate," Democratic Party Chairman Keith Roark said. Officials with the Idaho Republican Party in Boise didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

Republicans are racists

Rep. Jenkins: GOP looking for "great white hope" 1 hr 9 mins ago TOPEKA, Kan. – U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a "great white hope" to help stop the political agenda of the Democratic party and President Barack Obama. Videotape shows Jenkins, a Republican, making the comment at an Aug. 19 forum. She was discussing the Republican party's future after Democrats took control of the House and Senate in the 2008 elections, when the presidency went to Obama, the nation's first black president. A Jenkins spokeswoman told The Topeka Capital-Journal Wednesday that Jenkins apologized for her word choice and did not intend to offend anyone. Kenny Johnston, of the Kansas Democratic Party, says Jenkins' statement was regrettable and that she should stick to discussing solutions. ___ Information from: The Topeka Capital-Journal, http://www.cjonline.com Like I have always said, the Republicans are rich white racist snobs who don't care for anyone making less than a 6 figure income.

Here in Ypsi its raining the longest it has since June and I find it fitting as today our nation has lost an icon in Senator Ted Kennedy. Flags should be half mast across the land in honor of this great man. Love him or hate him, you have to respect his long, distinguished career and all the good things he has gotten done for our country over that career. Sure, he was a politician (and all politicians are suspect in their motives). Still you never doubted Senator Kennedy's sincerity and belief in the causes he was fighting for like health care or demanding our troops overseas had the best equipment after discovering George Bush sent in the Marines without enough body armor. He was just that kind of guy: he cared passionately about all Americans. Now he's gone. Just a few days ago John McCain and some other Republican fool (Grassley?) invoked Ted Kennedy's name saying that if he were involved in the negotiations over health care the Republicans would be able to work something out with the Democrats. Isn't is nice to see the Republicans, knowing that Senator Kennedy was at death's door, are willing to negotiate over whether we should all have free health care or not. Over his dead body, eh, you vultures? If Senator Kennedy's legacy means anything to you, you Republican swine should pass this health reform bill in his honor. It is what he would've wanted after all since he's been fighting to get national health care from your party since Nixon. Farewell Senator and thank you.

an open letter to my fellow Americans

I began to realize something today that has brought my heart no end of sorrow: maybe we can't win the grand prize of free health care from them. Maybe we can't even fight them in the next major election cycle because even when they lose, they win. I have seen this whole episode playout before, over and over, time and time again and still it's the same group of fat fucking rich white guys who get their panties all twisted in a bunch shouting, "They'll give all your daughters abortions!" or "They will pull the plug on you when your old!" or "You can't even choose your own doctor!" to the old tried and true saw "It's socialism!" or whatever else they can think of to fill their airwaves with. And why? Because they don't want me to have free health care. They don't want you to have it or you or you. Why? Because they know they'll have to pay for it out of their millions and billions. And what is wrong with you America? Don't you want free health care? I mean isn't that what Jesus would do? Care for the sick and needy? Doesn't he teach that "as you have done to the least of these, you have done unto me also"? Could it be we forget about Jesus' compassion in favor of his War God status? What if, god forbid, something terrible happens to you like an accident? I've heard horror story after horror story about people fighting the insurance company to hold up their end of the bargain for all those premiums you paid them. People have lost their homes because of that. HMOs? Instituted by Nixon to help insurance companies avoid their obligations to their customers. Who doesn't know someone with a story about that? So help me understand this. Why can't you have free health care? What about your kids? Why can't they? The simple truth is they can. You can, I can, we all can. Trust me: I was in Canada for a year and let me tell you free health care kicks ass! Free Canadian health care literally saved my life and you can't give a bigger recommendation than that. And all that crap the Republicans say about the horrors of the Canadian health care system? Not true, not one bit of it. In fact all the Canadians I asked about it laughed and wondered why we Yanks always believed such nonsense about their way of life. Now those rich folk? They don't have insurance because they don't need it: they have private physicians who work for them. And the Republicans, they get free health care by working for the government. So what makes them any better than the rest of us? Their money? Well who helped them get all that money? We did. The whole country did. America did. So while we helped them for better or worse, through sickness and health, they keep digging in their heels and resisting giving all of us what is right, what is honorable, what is decent and American and by God is what is owed to us after all of our sacrifice and hard work. But no, say the rich. So they lie and they lie just like they always do and whip the people into a frenzy over those lies because they hope you will be stupid enough to believe in them. In fact, this whole health care showdown is part of their political efforts to regain the House or Senate and the White House after that. Is that what we the people want? 8 more Bush style years of Republican governance? Really? I don't think so but some of you sure do act like it. So can we win? Can we beat them? Stand up America and claim your birth right! Or are you Esau, ready to sell it for a pot of stew? The rich don't care about you and they don't want anything from you but more money. Today I decided to get active and volunteer for the Democratic cause. Next I got in touch with my elected Representatives and told them what side of this debate I was on and I heartily encourage all of you to do this. Call them, e-mail them, do whatever it takes. Or give up. It's up to you.

Republicans are masters of bull shit

Here in Ypsilanti we have a yearly Heritage Festival which features live music, arts & crafts, yummy fried foods, a petting zoo and little booths set up by people to peddle their business or their beliefs to anyone as they pass by. There was a Veterans for Peace booth, a Libertarian booth, a solar energy booth, etc. No problem right? Well... Guess who else had boothe there? The thrice damned Republicans and Right to Life. So what, right? But where all the other booths throughout Heritage Fest were restrained and unoffensive, I got to see dead baby fetus pictures and depictions of President of the United States as the Joker with the word SOCIALIST underneath. Talk about giving aid and comfort to the enemy eh? Now people, I really don't give a rat's ass what anyone believes so long as they don't try to shove it down my throat or limit what anyone else believes. I had enough of that growing up in an Assembly of God church. See, in an Assembly of God church, everyone believes in the Book 150% which already means they are retarded. I mean who honestly believes that the Earth is only 8000 years old? They do. Who can say man and dinosaur lived side by side as friends with a straight face? They can! And let me tell you this, if you've never been a part of their speaking in tongues services, you should go and see just how weird and freaky these nut jobs get. When i was a young man I remember all of them surrounding me and laying hands on me and shouting in tongues because they wanted me to speak in tongues just like them. Eventually i went yaddida dadada dadada just to get them to stop. Apparently you are not saved enough unless you do it and this action of blathering in tongues means you are a bona fide 150% true Christer (because accepting Jesus as savior alone just won't do it). So what does this have to do with Republicans and Right to Lifers? They employ the same tactics as my old church mates. They surround you and shout you down blathering away with their tongues filled with hatred and lies, intentional distortions that they know are lies but say them anyway because when you say the same lies over and over again people start to think they are true. Can you say death panel? And hey, what about my rights?!? You right wing assholes aren't the only ones who want freedom you know. I want to be free from seeing aborted fetus pictures while I'm walking through a family festival. Where were our rights in this? Those pictures are pornographic and there were children walking by asking their parents what they were seeing. Now if you Right to Life fuckers can't handle sex ed being taught in school to your teenagers then why oh why is it okay for you to flaunt your carnage in front of 4 and 5 year olds you twisted fucks? Don't I have a right not to see your smut? Or are you only against Janet Jackson's boobs? Ugh! It's fine that you have an opinion on abortion but if your position is so righteous and legitimate why can't you work with lawmakers and government and spare us your melodramatic blood spattered placards you insesnsitive dimwits? And you Republicans! Do you know why I have kept calling you asswipes Nazis since 2001 when I returned to this great nation from Canada? Let me tell you a story... The Nazi party started in grassroots rural areas of Germany. See the party wasn't very popular with the citified Krauts but the country yokels ate it up. It was about God and Glorious Destiny, saving the Homeland... I mean Fatherland (how'd I get that mixed up?)..., restoring German morals and values and power over Europe to establishing a global economy with Germany at her rightful place as leader of the free (market) world. These are facts. And don't these facts sound awfully familiar? The Christian Coalition married to the Republican party, organized it's members into a powerful voting bloc for the express purpose of restoring America to Christian (white) values and exercising military and economic control across the globe to further the cause of glorious all powerful America. So the yokels invaded the cities and mobbed, vandalised, rioted and beat up fellow Germans of different political parties until all the common people were cowed into supporting the Nazis or face the consequences. Our Republican friends do this too. Florida 2000 they rioted in order to help steal the election for Bush. While running America they actively spied on peace groups and arrested some members for their un America delusion of free speech and the right of people to peaceably assemble. Now they bring guns to peaceful town hall meetings and threaten the life of the President. They shout over people and bully them down in these meetings as well. They are dangerous and twisted and their mind's are diseased. Yesterday when I saw the Republican booth with it's disgusting portraitures of our President i wanted to start in with them. If I had had a bat I would have driven them from the park like Jesus chasing money changers from the temple. Thankfully my girl Renee was there and she calmed me down. Yeah the urge to beat them was a bit over the top but goddamit I am sick and tired of these fuckers always pushing the rest of us around. They are like infants throwing a tantrum and sometimes you have to spank a rotten kid. I'm getting angry about it and we all should. The Republican party has disrupted the national harmony since Ronald Reagen. They play to the lowest common denominator so why not push back a little? Why not shove them around? Why not chase them with bats? If the Radical Right wants to get all billigerent and violent maybe we should oblige them. Hmmm... I wonder how Republicans would feel if pro gun Dems went to the filming of Tom DeLay on Dancing with the Stars? Or a Sarah Palin event? Bastards!

Stop the Right before it is too late!

So I recently gave up resisting it and bought a television set. I didn't really want to but with hockey season coming up I don't feel I really had a choice because –haha!-- I really enjoy the sport of hockey. 3 on 1 breakaways, Datsyukian deeks, Lord Stanley's Cup and –woohoo!-- fighting and carnage! So you see I was sorta stuck and getting a TV began to make sense. Unfortunately TVs are a great evil in todays Age of the Ape Called Man and many of my Ape brothers and sisters are addicted to it as badly as any alcoholic is addicted to sweet liquor or any crack addict to their precious rocks. Like money, it is a root to all evil through which the rich men who really run this country program our beliefs and behavior to insure our faithfulness and dull minded allegiance. What Man Ape is strong enough to resist the seductive allure of television? So you see my problem yes? But still I bought the TV set. As it turns out though, I'm not really watching much of it for a couple of serious reasons. 1) I hate commercials as much as I despise the Anaheim Ducks and that's a whole hell of a lot. 2) The right wing media is killing me in my spirit, literally. See, after 9/11 was allowed to happen, the Bush administration used the opportunity to go after so called “liberal” news outlets like the New York Times and CNN. The Bushies asserted that these sources were giving aid and comfort to the enemy or were traitors to America. You know, cuz free speech is un-American. But in a matter of 7 or 8 months, all media went one way and one way only and that was with whatever way the Bushies wanted! It didn't stop there even. Soon the Discovery channel got nuetered, the History channel became the All American Weapons of Mass Destruction channel and so on and so forth. It was like cable was taken over by creationists and rednecks while simultaneously all the information about the outside world America gets from the news channels is all filtered through radical right Republican filters. And don't even get me started about local news. Local news is all about selling you shit like computers and new video games while assuring you that it isn't safe outside. Arghhh! The fucking thrice damned Republicans are out to destroy the American Way of Life those rat bastards! And we know it is the Republicans behind all this for they are the very ones that the rich elite look to in this country to protect their assets and help manipulate the masses. Thus we know is true by the recent health care battle. The right has pulled out all the stops on this one. They have the news outlets showing polls favorable to their position, they have memos encouraging people to act like rowdy bawds, they have nut jobs bringing guns and assault rifles to places the President of the Unites States is at, and, worse still , more heninous then all of these things, I believe they are actively looking for some dumb good old boy to step forward and assassinate President Obama. Proof? All circumstantial evidence I'm afraid. First, did the so called liberal media report this? Nah which is strange considering the liberal media wants to take away all guns from the hands of private citizens eh? It could have been a nationwide crackdown on guns and a victory for liberalism but –haha!-- we don't have a liberal media do we? No, not at all. In fact the few networks that did cover it made it a 2nd amendment issue! But, it seems to my mind, if this had happened while Bush was still illegally in office there would have been a vicious backlash and we non Republicans (especially you non Republicans with guns) would have been rounded up en masse under suspicion to commit treason! Second, we know that the radical right is full of deluded good ol' boys who will kill another Human Being over matters of faith just like that nut job Scott Roeder who shot and killed Dr. George Tiller of Kansas in front of Tiller's whole church. Before Roeder it was Shelley Shannon who tried to kill Dr. Tiller. She managed to shoot the good doctor twice in the arm outside his clinic. See, the radical right needs very little provocation to murder or kill or take guns to where the President is speaking or spread misinformation and lies or just disrupting townhall meetings across the country. Why? Because we so called 'sinners' don't follow their warped brand of Christianity. Third, we know the certain Republicans of the radical right are pros at stirring up peoples fears and playing on their weaknesses. Look how well they played this country during the Bush era. Politically motivated manipulation of the terror threat level, slanderous lies like the whole 'Swift Boat' debacle during the Kerry campaign or even today with calling the President of the United States a Nazi during a time of War. Oh but when Bush was “president”, or, more accurately, the so called “War President” (nods to the Old Testament, eh? You manipulative fuckers!) any bad word was tantamount to treason. But that's the culture of America, manipulated as expertly as it is by the right wing media. I am reminded of the Presidential election last year when the right wing and it's media outlets showed poll after poll showing how tight and close the race was. Turned out that was all a bunch of shit intended to manipulate voters. The race wasn't close at all and Obama won in a landslide. But the intent of the lie of a close race was to energize the Republican base to get out and vote and cause moderates and independents to think they'd be wasting their vote with Obama. But Obama won in a walk. So now they have polls showing how half of America hates the health care plan and half the people disapprove of Obama which simply isn't the truth. It's manipulation. Why? Because if enough Americans become convinced that Obama sucks his assassination at the hands of the radical right will almost be acceptable. Remember, the radical right have no respect for any president not of their party. Remember what they did to Clinton? They'll do that and worse to President Obama if given a chance. And if we Americans don't demand that these homegrown terrorist tactics that the radical right employ be cracked down on, they will continue to ride rampant over us and manipulate us. Freedom isn't just for Republicans or radical right wingers. We must stop them now while we are still able. I accuse the right of domestic terrorism and I can only hope my fellow Americans realize this too before it is too late.