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Lyndon Johnson, His National Security Advisor and His Secretary of Defense Say All
Commented Nov 23, 2009 at 12:10:44 in World
“The generals are lining up against Obama like the 7 Days in May. Since it's a known fact that Petraeus is building his resume for Commander in Chief soon, and he and his side-kick McCrystal can't keep their mouths shut and can't stop making policy, it's time for Obama to do his job and fire them both and end this latest chapter in the Great Game of empire building in that corrupt part of the world.
Read how the US Funds the Taliban in the Nation Magazine that will make you sicker than you are now.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston”
Read how the US Funds the Taliban in the Nation Magazine that will make you sicker than you are now.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston”
metivo replied on Nov 23, 2009 at 12:34:15
“I supported Obama but honestly feel that he is incapable of firing McChrystal or Geithner or any of his other appointments that are turning out to have been big mistakes. He's too nice.”
Reader451 replied on Nov 23, 2009 at 12:21:05
“Yes I am coming to the same conclusion.”
Veterans: Lip Service, Bankers: Billions & America: Foreclosures - Here's The Fix
Commented Nov 12, 2009 at 10:42:23 in Business
“FDR's second bill of rights played at the end of Capitalism - A Love Story. The CEO's, bankers and Wall Street boys ruined this country's economy and businesses, but their sons and daughters will never have to enlist because they can't find a job that pays decent wages.”
Win or Come Home In Afghanistan
Commented Oct 05, 2009 at 12:37:26 in World
“I thought Obama campaigned to end this. Unfortunately, he has no experience, either in the military or as a leader. As such, he as been completely bowled over, and believes the BS coming from the military brass, the CIA, and the war profiteers, who are as good as the financial industry that also owns him, in looting the treasury. To those powerful interests, the blood of US soldiers (men and women who can't get a job at home) doesn't count in the equation. The same "war is good for business" gang kept the clusterf*ck going in Vietnam - sending platoons of soldiers out to get ambushed in jungles instead of mountain valleys in Afghanistan. History, and the Russians have repeatedly shown us it's a no win. We now have a crooked US puppet president, and former CIA bag-man, in there to help justify the US being there.”
Barack Obama Must See Michael Moore's New Movie (and So Must You)!
Commented Sep 21, 2009 at 20:09:02 in Business
“When did that Russian guy say the US would collapse? There's more to it than this -- Obama (Bush III) is working on the NAFTA superhighway.”
donaldw6 replied on Sep 21, 2009 at 20:13:40
“Woo woo”
Barack Obama Must See Michael Moore's New Movie (and So Must You)!
Commented Sep 21, 2009 at 17:00:14 in Business
“Pretty sickening. That's why Bush I and II stacked the deck on the SCOTUS in favor of the corporations. Remember Don Regan, Reagan's Secy of Treasury who was head of Merrill Lynch and told Reagan what to do, like Cheney told Bush II what to do? And Obama is working hard on the NAFTA superhighway to close the deal, give illegals the same rights as citizens, and put more Americans out of work.”
forbarackinmichigan replied on Sep 21, 2009 at 19:36:34
“And don't forget Henry Paulson, Bush II's Sec. of Treasury, was the CEO of Goldman Sachs. His net worth is estimated to be over $700,000,000. And if you don't think this was part of a long term plan to steal the equity from average Americans, you need to start paying attention.”
Barack Obama Must See Michael Moore's New Movie (and So Must You)!
Commented Sep 21, 2009 at 16:50:30 in Business
“There aren't enough agents and investigators to deal with all the criminal investigations and evidence gathering inside and out. It's so pervasive and unfortunately -- business as usual as the crooked corporations use their TARP bailout money to continue to buy the politicians and the SEC to look the other way.”
monk2000 replied on Sep 21, 2009 at 17:08:32
“Maybe we should storm them by the thousands and place them under citizens arrest... and demand that the investigations run their course and that the evidence is gathered.”
dianhow replied on Sep 21, 2009 at 17:05:28
“have Politicians have been Greedy for eons. - but the GOP found new and more toxic ways to do it
Reagans 1981 toxic deregulation -which Bush - W kept going - found new ways to screw us and the world at the same time Like Madoff 's scam- but millions times bigger. GOP gave trillions in cuts to GOP bse aka fat cats -and lied us into Iraq What a legacy of greed- war mongers & liars. The Moral majority - Compassionate Conservatives-
Born again Christain Bush ? all B S”
Reagans 1981 toxic deregulation -which Bush - W kept going - found new ways to screw us and the world at the same time Like Madoff 's scam- but millions times bigger. GOP gave trillions in cuts to GOP bse aka fat cats -and lied us into Iraq What a legacy of greed- war mongers & liars. The Moral majority - Compassionate Conservatives-
Born again Christain Bush ? all B S”
APVEGAS replied on Sep 21, 2009 at 16:59:02
“Put one off them in front of a firing squad and the rest will fall into line...We should have kept Saddam alive.”
Barack Obama Must See Michael Moore's New Movie (and So Must You)!
Commented Sep 21, 2009 at 16:41:26 in Business
“You go Michael Moore! And those who seem to think that unchecked "capitalism" makes us free, educate yourselves - take a course in how Goldman Sachs runs Washington by reading Matt Taibbi's July Rolling Stones expose on how the compliant politicians enabled the dirty schemes over the decades. Then to understand just how the TARP really worked, read "Good Billions After Bad, the Bailout One Year Later" in the current Vanity Fair Magzine. None of this is fiction and it's enough to make you sick. Of course Salon whines that VF didn't ask any economists - duh do you need to ask an economist about whether more dirty deals , with zero accountability to established crooks is going to change anything? And the same VF interviews Saint Henry Paulson who is coming out with a book next month - probably in the vein of George Tenet -- it wasn't my fault. Don't buy books written by crooks.”
oli33 replied on Sep 21, 2009 at 16:55:30
“When you quote from Rolling Stone on economics it is hard to type in between all the laughing.”
Pinchy replied on Sep 21, 2009 at 16:49:44
“They need to reform the markets and get the government and our tax dollars out of covering their gambling losses. If firms risk losing their own money, they won't take such risky ventures. However, these firms hire many of the politicians or their cronies to cushy jobs at high compensation. So neither party is motivated to reform the system. They just yell at Wall Street to make it look like they're unhappy.”
Rare AP Photo Captures Deadly Attack on U.S. Marine in Afghanistan -- Pentagon Protests
Commented Sep 04, 2009 at 14:42:01 in Media
“I spent a career trying to keep contractors from screwing the American people out of tax dollars. There was a time when I routinely looked under my car. Greed, politics and money is the reason the Marines are still being slaughtered on the front lines of a useless "war" while high paid contractors party , f*ck around, and get paid for it. I read in my newspaper this morning that the private contractors guarding the embassy there (what US Marines used to do) needed to be "watched". Change we can believe in?
Recommend the movie State of Play just out on DVD.”
Recommend the movie State of Play just out on DVD.”
Rare AP Photo Captures Deadly Attack on U.S. Marine in Afghanistan -- Pentagon Protests
Commented Sep 04, 2009 at 12:53:53 in Media
“Yes, and Jesus used the word for them, many many times: Hypocrites”
French Women Don't Wear Shorts
Commented Aug 28, 2009 at 00:10:01 in Style
“The issue is what is appropriate for the occasion, and conveys respect for the office that MO and her husband waged the most expensive political campaign ever to win. Some of the outfits Michelle has worn to official events look like something more appropriate for a thin 12 year old girl than the first lady of the USA. During the campaign she dressed very classy, but after moving into the WH..... guess that was part of the change we were told we could believe in.”
ywcachieve replied on Aug 28, 2009 at 00:38:36
“CATTY!”
Common Sense 2009
Commented Aug 23, 2009 at 12:38:57 in Politics
“Absolutely - that's how the Congress justifies taking all their money as campaign contributions and other "gifts". It used to be called graft and corruption but now is "free speech" under the euphemism of "campaign finance reform"”
Common Sense 2009
Commented Aug 23, 2009 at 12:35:47 in Politics
“And who chose Dr. Henry Kissinger and groomed him for what he became and continues to be”
Common Sense 2009
Commented Aug 23, 2009 at 12:19:21 in Politics
“The corporate handlers keep confusion going by labeling the American people - left, right, liberal, upside down, red dog, blue dog, yellow dog-- It's called divide and conquer people.
As one woman wrote in our local paper this week, her 80 something mother had become a mouth piece, spouting the ignorant cliches and blather from the cable news. She turned off those 24 hour lying, talking heads. And who are the people posting comments here to say that Larry isn't the right messenger? Who the F are you anyway? Don't you know how he took on, and won a supreme court case on the first amendment. And for defending everyone's first amendment rights, he was shot by a domestic terrorist .
Larry, you're a hero, Keep doing what you do, writing about what's real and pushing for adherence to the Constitution. After watching how Obama has operated since taking office, one can see that Obama is the perfect Majordomo, chosen for the job by his corporate handlers.”
As one woman wrote in our local paper this week, her 80 something mother had become a mouth piece, spouting the ignorant cliches and blather from the cable news. She turned off those 24 hour lying, talking heads. And who are the people posting comments here to say that Larry isn't the right messenger? Who the F are you anyway? Don't you know how he took on, and won a supreme court case on the first amendment. And for defending everyone's first amendment rights, he was shot by a domestic terrorist .
Larry, you're a hero, Keep doing what you do, writing about what's real and pushing for adherence to the Constitution. After watching how Obama has operated since taking office, one can see that Obama is the perfect Majordomo, chosen for the job by his corporate handlers.”
Ex-CIA agent: Argument that Afghanistan War Makes Us Safer is "Bulls**t"
Commented Aug 20, 2009 at 00:04:17 in World
“-- correction 2008 election, meaning Obama, that change you can believe in guy. So much for all that election talk”
Ex-CIA agent: Argument that Afghanistan War Makes Us Safer is "Bulls**t"
Commented Aug 19, 2009 at 23:59:44 in World
“Agree - and Bob's books have been right-on as well. But nobody in the WH and few in congress appear to be listening and doing what they said they were going to do in the 2006 and 2009 elections. We elected democrats to stop these senseless wars that are killing our soldiers and bankrupting us.”
Ihaveadream replied on Aug 20, 2009 at 00:04:17
“-- correction 2008 election, meaning Obama, that change you can believe in guy. So much for all that election talk”
The Wrong Diagnosis
Commented Aug 10, 2009 at 06:21:08 in Living
“Dr Weil knows that a high percentage of what is wrong with a person's body is either caused by or can be corrected by what you eat. I bought Gladys Lindberg's book, "Take Charge of Your Health" years ago.
Most American's diets are horrible and too many doctors just want to give you a prescription drug. They are rewarded by how many prescriptions they write. For example, menopause is a natural process but the majority of the OB/GYNs I went to were asking which cocktail of hormones you want to try instead of just dealing with it as a natural body process. I researched and read "The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women" and said no.”
Most American's diets are horrible and too many doctors just want to give you a prescription drug. They are rewarded by how many prescriptions they write. For example, menopause is a natural process but the majority of the OB/GYNs I went to were asking which cocktail of hormones you want to try instead of just dealing with it as a natural body process. I researched and read "The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women" and said no.”
America's Wars: How Serial War Became the American Way of Life
Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 17:58:15 in Politics
“They aren't "my buddies" I am a registered independent. Robert Gates was Bill Casey's (Reagan's campaign mgr) protegee and worked all the "deals" with the Iranian hostage handlers. Don't try to re-write history to me. There's an old saying, "you're either part of the problem or part of the solution".
Figure it out.”
Figure it out.”
America's Wars: How Serial War Became the American Way of Life
Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 13:48:59 in Politics
“And the joker's enabler: the CIA
an interesting insider look is what the husbands of the ladies in C. David Heymann's book, "The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club" were doing”
an interesting insider look is what the husbands of the ladies in C. David Heymann's book, "The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club" were doing”
America's Wars: How Serial War Became the American Way of Life
Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 13:23:53 in Politics
“And you thought anything would change after Obama said he was keeping Robert Gates?”
ewolf97770 replied on Jul 22, 2009 at 15:00:11
“Ihaveadream, who makes the movies glorifying wars? It is the liberals in Hollywood that control what is made out there in that goofy town! So, tell it to YOUR buddies!
LOL< ROFLMAO! And you all want to blame the Republicans for wars? When it was under the direction of most Democrats in the prevous years that brought on the wars! JFK and ROOSEVELT come to mind. How many times did Clinton send our troops away? Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo?
Bettter check you pow back door before you start to throw them rocks because the boulders keep coming right back to the Democrats!”
LOL< ROFLMAO! And you all want to blame the Republicans for wars? When it was under the direction of most Democrats in the prevous years that brought on the wars! JFK and ROOSEVELT come to mind. How many times did Clinton send our troops away? Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo?
Bettter check you pow back door before you start to throw them rocks because the boulders keep coming right back to the Democrats!”
Shattering the Right vs. Left Prism Once Again: The Wall Street Journal Goes After Goldman and the Bank Bailout
Commented Jul 16, 2009 at 18:27:09 in Business
“and many, many US businesses currently employ illegals so they can operate sweatshops right here in the USA, pay dirt poor wages and no benefits. The illegals get free (to them and the businesses) health care courtesy of Medicaid and free public defenders and and and they are here illegally. period. The Obama admin has adopted the Bush-same policies and goals of "bring em in" and let em stay".
Yeah, none of them voted for Obama, The people who did thought he would bring "we the people" back to the word government and uphold the Constitution. I was one of those.”
Yeah, none of them voted for Obama, The people who did thought he would bring "we the people" back to the word government and uphold the Constitution. I was one of those.”
Cybershaman replied on Jul 17, 2009 at 07:59:13
“Blaming the 'illegals' for this mess is falling for the same 'divide and conquer' tactics that have been used to keep us fighting amongst ourselves for centuries. The 'illegals' are just economic refugees from areas that are in worse shape than we are. If companies were not able to pay lower wages by pitting us against more desperate people, and if our own economic opportunities had not been shipped over the borders, this would not be a problem. The same forces that have destroyed economic opportunity in Mexico for decades has been implemented here. Rather than using our economy and knowhow to improve the living standards of the rest of the world, we have had our standards lowered to third world status.
Blame those in positions of power, not the people who are scrambling for any way they can find to feed their families. If you think about it those who dare to sneak around the corrupt rules in order to find economic opportunity are the very ones who have the most gumption and drive to succeed. They are not passively waiting for some bureaucratic solution. They would be admired by the very people who disparage them if the Statue Of Liberty still means anything.”
Blame those in positions of power, not the people who are scrambling for any way they can find to feed their families. If you think about it those who dare to sneak around the corrupt rules in order to find economic opportunity are the very ones who have the most gumption and drive to succeed. They are not passively waiting for some bureaucratic solution. They would be admired by the very people who disparage them if the Statue Of Liberty still means anything.”
Shattering the Right vs. Left Prism Once Again: The Wall Street Journal Goes After Goldman and the Bank Bailout
Commented Jul 16, 2009 at 18:12:41 in Business
“and his adviser, the perfect one: Robert Rubin. The WSJ must have read the Rolling Stone article, the Bubble Machine, about Goldman and all their stooges, and had a "duh" moment?”
Sarah Palin Resigning as Alaska's Governor (VIDEO)
Commented Jul 04, 2009 at 00:25:30 in Politics
“I thought I read that she and the RNC wanted her to campaign for others because they thought she was so popular --- and she sure is with a certain set of scary knuckledraggers”
Sarah Palin Resigning as Alaska's Governor (VIDEO)
Commented Jul 03, 2009 at 23:53:36 in Politics
“In the past 50 years how many governors have resigned just to resign? Not any I know of. And when they did it was because they were caught with either their pants down or an ethical problem. Some, like that Blagojevich and that SC birdbrain Stanford have the hubris to actually think their states want or need them and have to be thrown out. And this one's opinion of herself is too high to just quit to go campaigning in a year when there aren't any campaigns.”
mychagal replied on Jul 04, 2009 at 00:12:52
“No future campaigns for Palin. The conventional wisdom was that Palin return to Alaska, after the election, keep her head down and learn all she could about foreign policy, etc. as well as do the best job possible as governor of Alaska, then look at the possibility of running in 2012. She did neither.
Her week long feud with David Letterman and the "screw you" speech, coupled with the VF article were the final nails in her coffin, from which she could not survive.”
Her week long feud with David Letterman and the "screw you" speech, coupled with the VF article were the final nails in her coffin, from which she could not survive.”
From the Raft replied on Jul 04, 2009 at 00:02:37
“Did she "work her way" through college?”
Death at the Holocaust Museum and the Degradation of the American Dialogue
Commented Jun 11, 2009 at 15:30:07 in Politics
“Excellent investigative journalism with documented names and facts about the politics of the Christian right - The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet. Jjust out in paperback. Published 2008. All the names are there”
First, Stop the Hemorrhaging
Commented Jun 01, 2009 at 00:39:49 in Business
“Yes, tax incentives to companies who employ US citizens - yeah real US citizens, not the ones who steal identities that the senate democrats eliminated e-verify in the stimulus legislation for (gotta two-fer there pander to the hispanic vote and pay back those road and construction lobbies) and tax penalties to those who don't and are caught employing illegals. The unemployment figures are bogus because they are only counting the ones who are collecting or file for unemployment. My son worked for a Ritz Camera store in a mall in NC that closed last week. Ritz/Wolf Camera is/has closed 400+ stores nationwide. These stores typically only have two full time employees - the two managers who are eligible for unemployment. The rest of the people working and losing their jobs are considered part time because there are few full time jobs and they won't let them work 40 hours a week so that they are eligible for benefits. Those people do not show up on the statistics.”
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