No offense, Citizen ackthpt, but there's virtually no resemblance between "Tricky Dick" Nixon and the present Overlord of the House of Cheap Tricks, formerly known as the American presidency.
Nixon was a crook, a probable aider and abettor in the assassination of President Kennedy (as former employer of Jack Ruby when he was a congressional investigator), but Nixon actually did do several positive things for America (EPA, extending affirmative action, etc., etc.).
Bush has destroyed and seeks to destroy, all worker's rights, all woman's rights, all rights of the citizenry and reduce the vast majority to feudalism. (And he is also a mass murderer.) Truly the neocons are nothing more than the basest of feudalists - wishing everyone to be reduced to serfdom.
They have destroyed the economy, destroyed the military, emptied out the US Treasury and f**ked up this country for generations to come.
The other day VP Cheney gave a speech claiming that he is certain al Qa'eda will nuke a city in the USA. Hmmmm...I believe Cheney was the one who exposed, and therefore shut down, the one defense against that, the CIA's Brewster Jennings operation. Anyone bother to keep track of how fewer the number of border patrol agents there are on America's border since the Busheviks came into office????
I'd like to see legislation requiring the reopening of the investigation into the John F. Kennedy assassination and any and all links to the Bush Crime Family. I would like to see an actual investigation into the attacks on 9/11/01 and any and all links to the Bush Crime Family. I would particularly like to see lasers attached to the heads of sharks....(OK, this last one was a joke from you know who, but the other two are serious).
21st Century Reading List:
American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota, The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
Exactly so - and everytime an American dufus (people will soundly insult me for suggesting this, of course) buys from Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Nordstrom's or Old Navy, they are enriching the Chinese Red Army, which is the owner of record of all those various factories.
Then the Chinese Red Army, via the Department of Public Security, rounds up those dissidents, tortures them to death, preserves their remains, and ships them to the USA and elsewhere, where those traitorous fools and half-wits, pay the Chinese government for the privilege of viewing those murdered dissidents' remains - it's called the Bodies Exhibition, to be found in LA, NYC, Philadelphia, Miami and Seattle. Boy is that ever totally f**ked up.....
That's a very good point you make. Once, several years ago I had finished up a particularly long run (maybe 15 or 16 miles), when I stopped off at a local park to get some water and rest a bit. While sitting down on some elevated grass, a little 4-year old girl came up and leaned against me while she was picking dandelions.
A nearby female (thirtyish age category) smiled at us. Then this little girl's mother called her to come eat - her mother was maybe fifty feet away and down hill from us.
The nearby, formerly smiling thirtyish female was aghast with shock when she realized the little girl and I were total strangers. BFD, for God's sakes. That same thirtyish female probably voted for Bush both times and lives in stark fear of terrorists from Iraq (even though the majority were from Saudi Arabia, but she'll never figure that out - and I'm sure she believes Building 7's pulverization is the way ALL BUILDINGS COLLAPSE.....).....
So, when the Bush Crime Family brings drugs into the USA (which they appear to have been doing for generations now) we should attack that family and not the users???
Don't try to claim that these two awful situations are linked in some way to sway people to your side.
As is usually the case obvious connections aren't so obvious to the uninformed and misinformed.
So read closely and read further:
Ronald Reagan defunded the mental health system in the US back in the '80s - Reagan was the precurser, or first of, the neocons and their movement. This action laid the framework for the horrible consequence experienced at Virgina Tech. The illegal and amoral invasion and occupation of Iraq, with the horrendous body count heard about daily on the national news (and far more intelligently and far more detailed in the foreign news, i.e., European and Asian news outlets) promotes a very unhealthy mental health environment for those mentally ill who are not given proper treatment in the failed American health care system, or remnants thereof.
Said Karma in operation, dude.
It takes a village to raise a child, but it only takes one crazed, armed madman to wipe out an entire village.
Of course. But then, those e-mails could most likeley be recovered by shipping the hard drives to the European firm, Convar, which the FBI used to recover financial data from hard drives recovered from the destroyed World Trade Center Towers.
Curious how, in a national security matter, the FBI would resort to a foreign firm (although it had just been bought by Kroll, which in turn is owned by the insurer of record to the WTC, AIG, and I believe the deal was brokered by the Blackstone Group, the mortgage holder of record - how very curious - most be one of those EXTREME "coincidences....)
Say...whatever became of all that financial data anyway??????
"If they can put a man on the moon, why can't they....?????"
Well, to all the nimrods out there (Not you, Good Citizen lawpoop, I just felt this comment was more appropriate following your intelligent and sarcastic post), the obvious answer to such a rant is:
Because they murdered the fellow who initiated the "man on the moon" project, and those who were connected with his brutal murder (and most likely the murders of MLK and RFK as well) have been in power in the USA for quite some time. 'Nuff said......
Also, I believe Europe isn't composed of rogue terrorist nations (can you say USA?). Anyone disputes this, check the news and read a book. 'Nuff said....
Well spoken, Good Citizen koreth, so allow me to please add several very important tidbits:
First, numerous federal statutes were indeed broken including Criminal Interference with an Ongoing Investigation, Obstruction of Justice, Witness tampering, etc.
It was also unconstitutional and an impeachable offsense.
For reference, please read the US Constitution --- for historical reference, please see the Proceedings of the House of Representatives (concerning creation of government), June 17, 1789, and James Madison's declaration of it as an impeachable offense.
It is not that there have been impeachable offenses committed by the Bush administration people, it is that most salient fact that everything they have done to date falss into the category of impeachable offenses.....
Oh wait there was nothing wrong with it at all. He was totally within his rights to do what he did, you just don't like it.
Unfortunely, nimrods like you don't have an inkling that corruption IS AGAINST THE LAW! Numerous federal statutes were broken, the least of which is witness tampering. Add this to treason, which the Bushies obviously committed when they outed a CIA agent and also claimed to have been conducting an investigation into that "leak" - which we found out was completely false (that came out in the testimony of their internal security guy before the US Congress about a week ago.....(Why do you clowns always sign in under "anonymous coward"????
The basic fallacy with everything he says is that M$ has never been known as an innovator - nor are they known for ever hiring innovative types. They tends toward the zombie-M$ is the tops!-you have a chip on your shoulder for ever doubting us!-pod people employees. From the first time I was a contractor back in '88 at Redmond campus to the very last time '97 - they have always been the most (well, second only to Boeing) incompetent and inefficient bunch I've ever worked for -- unfortunately, Lockheed Martin (back when they were known as Martin Marietta) was one of the most efficient companies I've ever seen - sad thing to say about the world's largest arms dealer.....
While I do indeed agree with the gist of what you have stated, I would disagree and say that the criminality of specific people and self-serving organizations take the priority in creating such events.
Were one to study the nonobvious events leading up to Prohibition in the early 20th century (certain criminal elements supporting anti-drinking political factions and parties, etc., after said criminals had bought up - or strongarmed - distilleries and bootleggers throughout the land) and NAFTA in the latter part of the 20th century (major banks as donors to the passage of NAFTA in order to recover lost massive money-laundering business which had migranted to Mexican banks after the American passage of bank reporting laws, etc.) one might observe specific patterns of instigators taking advantage of existing attitudes and biases - yet the majority were against NAFTA and Prohibition - so to, quite probably most people were against this war (I know this combat veteran was and spoke out repeatedly against it - in fact, the only time I ever called a public talk radio program was to castigate the neoliberals and neoconservatives ranting in favor of the Iraq invasion on a lowbrow show called "Beyond the Beltway" [originating out of Chicago) and I was one of a long string of combat veterans calling in that day who were decidedly against such an illegal invasion).
Imagine a culture that invested billions in researching the advancement of human pleasure - instead of North America which invests billions in pursuit of pain.....
I believe those have been advertised for some time on the open market - they are called penis pumps.....According to the Bushies (Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, and their moron cheerleader, George Weasel) Kahlid Sheik Mohammed is responsible for 9/11/01, and the Crucifixion, and the Trojan War, and George's hemmorrhoids and [Note: Seattle "newspapers" report that the aforementioned KSM did plan on blowing up a building in Seattle, citing it be specific name in 2003 or 2004, when that building wasn't named until the year 2006 - Wow, psychic "terrorists" - can you spell al Qaeda and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood gofer who now claims to be a super terrorist?????].
I wouldn't take this all so seriously, Good Citizen Larus, after all, the EXACT same items were being hyped back in the mid-20th century during the Vietnam "War" - and nothing ever really came of it - with the exception of the thermal ray scanner (reads heat signatures several days after an event, with a computer adding depth and dimension to the readings [allowed the Israeli military to figure out what invasion routes were used by the Egyptian army at the outset of the Yom Kippur War - 10/1973]).
Those exoskeletons have actually existed in working models since the late '60s, but nothing ever came of them in combat use, etc. Just something to sell magazines to the technologically historically ignorant......(no offense intended to those of you who fall into that category).
21st Century Reading List:
The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression by James Mann, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal, American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips
Honestly -- lay off the Kool Aid. Take a look at the amount spent on the Iraq war sometime. It's a vast sum; easily enough to have just bought Saddam's cooperation (and let's face it, he was desperate for friends anyway) and all the oil under Iraq.
Geez, Kadin2048, talk about mindless simplification of the events (it's about racism, of course?????). There has been over $1 Trillion in wealth transfer, from the emptying of the US Treasury and the promise of future paybacks to various governments for their financial loans, to the corporate elites of this country in a massive super-concentration of wealth. Along with the oil, of course,.....
Naaah....what they really hate is the idea that some 'tard from Crawf*ck, Texas, who spends his time doing photo ops clearing brush from his "ranch" in 100-degree heat while never apparently breaking out in a sweat is now, somehow, president of the USA and Fox "News" --- but as long as they (the Busheviks) keep paying them (Bush family friend, Osama et al.) to perform terrorit acts and continue to grow opium, all is well with them.....
Oh for God's sake, stratjakt, read a book! Or follow some sort of current events: civil service (government workers) are hired by the Office of Personnel Management - and who performs the background checks required by those personnel at OPM? USIS - a Carlyle Group-owned private security firm (you may have heard their name when they were under investigation by one Lt.Col. Westhusing, who, just several days prior to turning in an investigative report on USIS's Iraq activities, died from an apparent suicide. How very convenient!).
Who performs the background checks necessary to be hired by the Transporation Security Administration and other government agencies? Why, it's that Blackwater USA gang (you know, owned by that neocon uber fundamentalist and Bush supporter, Eric Prince). And what were those eight US Attorneys involved in when recently sacked and replaced by the Bushies? Why they were investigating corruption within the Bush administration.
No, stratjakt, the Bushies aren't out to get us....they are out to gut us.....
Sadly, Good Citizen jc42, your comments are both highly erudite and right on target.
Jane Jacobs most excellent and highly readable last work, Dark Age Ahead posits that we are now in the Dark Age, and given the fact that it appears most Americans today haven't even read one book, it is no wonder that the Busheviks can so easily spread their own ignorant brand of "perception management" (derived from the CIA's old MK-Ultra program).
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Nixon was a crook, a probable aider and abettor in the assassination of President Kennedy (as former employer of Jack Ruby when he was a congressional investigator), but Nixon actually did do several positive things for America (EPA, extending affirmative action, etc., etc.).
Bush has destroyed and seeks to destroy, all worker's rights, all woman's rights, all rights of the citizenry and reduce the vast majority to feudalism. (And he is also a mass murderer.) Truly the neocons are nothing more than the basest of feudalists - wishing everyone to be reduced to serfdom.
They have destroyed the economy, destroyed the military, emptied out the US Treasury and f**ked up this country for generations to come.
The other day VP Cheney gave a speech claiming that he is certain al Qa'eda will nuke a city in the USA. Hmmmm...I believe Cheney was the one who exposed, and therefore shut down, the one defense against that, the CIA's Brewster Jennings operation. Anyone bother to keep track of how fewer the number of border patrol agents there are on America's border since the Busheviks came into office????
21st Century Reading List:
American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota, The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
Can't he figure out how to log in under his own name, DopeHeadDick????
Then the Chinese Red Army, via the Department of Public Security, rounds up those dissidents, tortures them to death, preserves their remains, and ships them to the USA and elsewhere, where those traitorous fools and half-wits, pay the Chinese government for the privilege of viewing those murdered dissidents' remains - it's called the Bodies Exhibition, to be found in LA, NYC, Philadelphia, Miami and Seattle. Boy is that ever totally f**ked up.....
A nearby female (thirtyish age category) smiled at us. Then this little girl's mother called her to come eat - her mother was maybe fifty feet away and down hill from us.
The nearby, formerly smiling thirtyish female was aghast with shock when she realized the little girl and I were total strangers. BFD, for God's sakes. That same thirtyish female probably voted for Bush both times and lives in stark fear of terrorists from Iraq (even though the majority were from Saudi Arabia, but she'll never figure that out - and I'm sure she believes Building 7's pulverization is the way ALL BUILDINGS COLLAPSE.....).....
Sounds like a plan......
As is usually the case obvious connections aren't so obvious to the uninformed and misinformed.
So read closely and read further:
Ronald Reagan defunded the mental health system in the US back in the '80s - Reagan was the precurser, or first of, the neocons and their movement. This action laid the framework for the horrible consequence experienced at Virgina Tech. The illegal and amoral invasion and occupation of Iraq, with the horrendous body count heard about daily on the national news (and far more intelligently and far more detailed in the foreign news, i.e., European and Asian news outlets) promotes a very unhealthy mental health environment for those mentally ill who are not given proper treatment in the failed American health care system, or remnants thereof.
Said Karma in operation, dude.
It takes a village to raise a child, but it only takes one crazed, armed madman to wipe out an entire village.
Sounds like the first hour of each day in Iraq. What goes around....sadly, comes around....
Curious how, in a national security matter, the FBI would resort to a foreign firm (although it had just been bought by Kroll, which in turn is owned by the insurer of record to the WTC, AIG, and I believe the deal was brokered by the Blackstone Group, the mortgage holder of record - how very curious - most be one of those EXTREME "coincidences....)
Say...whatever became of all that financial data anyway??????
Perhaps you missed this news story.....
Well, to all the nimrods out there (Not you, Good Citizen lawpoop, I just felt this comment was more appropriate following your intelligent and sarcastic post), the obvious answer to such a rant is:
Because they murdered the fellow who initiated the "man on the moon" project, and those who were connected with his brutal murder (and most likely the murders of MLK and RFK as well) have been in power in the USA for quite some time. 'Nuff said......
Also, I believe Europe isn't composed of rogue terrorist nations (can you say USA?). Anyone disputes this, check the news and read a book. 'Nuff said....
So....crappy software is bad for learning....who would have ever guessed?????
Well said, Good Citizen Malqqi, and please don't forget those H-2Bs, H-2Cs, L-1s, O-1s, P-1s, P-2s, P-3s....am I forgetting anyone here???????
First, numerous federal statutes were indeed broken including Criminal Interference with an Ongoing Investigation, Obstruction of Justice, Witness tampering, etc.
It was also unconstitutional and an impeachable offsense.
For reference, please read the US Constitution --- for historical reference, please see the Proceedings of the House of Representatives (concerning creation of government), June 17, 1789, and James Madison's declaration of it as an impeachable offense.
It is not that there have been impeachable offenses committed by the Bush administration people, it is that most salient fact that everything they have done to date falss into the category of impeachable offenses.....
Unfortunely, nimrods like you don't have an inkling that corruption IS AGAINST THE LAW! Numerous federal statutes were broken, the least of which is witness tampering. Add this to treason, which the Bushies obviously committed when they outed a CIA agent and also claimed to have been conducting an investigation into that "leak" - which we found out was completely false (that came out in the testimony of their internal security guy before the US Congress about a week ago.....(Why do you clowns always sign in under "anonymous coward"????
M$, after years of offshoring jobs to China, suddenly finds that China owns the OS and apps markets......Duuuuhhhh!
The basic fallacy with everything he says is that M$ has never been known as an innovator - nor are they known for ever hiring innovative types. They tends toward the zombie-M$ is the tops!-you have a chip on your shoulder for ever doubting us!-pod people employees. From the first time I was a contractor back in '88 at Redmond campus to the very last time '97 - they have always been the most (well, second only to Boeing) incompetent and inefficient bunch I've ever worked for -- unfortunately, Lockheed Martin (back when they were known as Martin Marietta) was one of the most efficient companies I've ever seen - sad thing to say about the world's largest arms dealer.....
Were one to study the nonobvious events leading up to Prohibition in the early 20th century (certain criminal elements supporting anti-drinking political factions and parties, etc., after said criminals had bought up - or strongarmed - distilleries and bootleggers throughout the land) and NAFTA in the latter part of the 20th century (major banks as donors to the passage of NAFTA in order to recover lost massive money-laundering business which had migranted to Mexican banks after the American passage of bank reporting laws, etc.) one might observe specific patterns of instigators taking advantage of existing attitudes and biases - yet the majority were against NAFTA and Prohibition - so to, quite probably most people were against this war (I know this combat veteran was and spoke out repeatedly against it - in fact, the only time I ever called a public talk radio program was to castigate the neoliberals and neoconservatives ranting in favor of the Iraq invasion on a lowbrow show called "Beyond the Beltway" [originating out of Chicago) and I was one of a long string of combat veterans calling in that day who were decidedly against such an illegal invasion).
Imagine a culture that invested billions in researching the advancement of human pleasure - instead of North America which invests billions in pursuit of pain.....
I believe those have been advertised for some time on the open market - they are called penis pumps.....According to the Bushies (Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, and their moron cheerleader, George Weasel) Kahlid Sheik Mohammed is responsible for 9/11/01, and the Crucifixion, and the Trojan War, and George's hemmorrhoids and [Note: Seattle "newspapers" report that the aforementioned KSM did plan on blowing up a building in Seattle, citing it be specific name in 2003 or 2004, when that building wasn't named until the year 2006 - Wow, psychic "terrorists" - can you spell al Qaeda and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood gofer who now claims to be a super terrorist?????].
Those exoskeletons have actually existed in working models since the late '60s, but nothing ever came of them in combat use, etc. Just something to sell magazines to the technologically historically ignorant......(no offense intended to those of you who fall into that category).
21st Century Reading List:
The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression by James Mann, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota
The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal, American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips
Geez, Kadin2048, talk about mindless simplification of the events (it's about racism, of course?????). There has been over $1 Trillion in wealth transfer, from the emptying of the US Treasury and the promise of future paybacks to various governments for their financial loans, to the corporate elites of this country in a massive super-concentration of wealth. Along with the oil, of course,.....
Catch a clue, dood.....
Naaah....what they really hate is the idea that some 'tard from Crawf*ck, Texas, who spends his time doing photo ops clearing brush from his "ranch" in 100-degree heat while never apparently breaking out in a sweat is now, somehow, president of the USA and Fox "News" --- but as long as they (the Busheviks) keep paying them (Bush family friend, Osama et al.) to perform terrorit acts and continue to grow opium, all is well with them.....
Who performs the background checks necessary to be hired by the Transporation Security Administration and other government agencies? Why, it's that Blackwater USA gang (you know, owned by that neocon uber fundamentalist and Bush supporter, Eric Prince). And what were those eight US Attorneys involved in when recently sacked and replaced by the Bushies? Why they were investigating corruption within the Bush administration.
No, stratjakt, the Bushies aren't out to get us....they are out to gut us.....
Jane Jacobs most excellent and highly readable last work, Dark Age Ahead posits that we are now in the Dark Age, and given the fact that it appears most Americans today haven't even read one book, it is no wonder that the Busheviks can so easily spread their own ignorant brand of "perception management" (derived from the CIA's old MK-Ultra program).