Thanks to everyone who fought the good fight.
patriotboy |
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09.29.06 - 4:18 am | #
WTF? What happened to this Country? Who's gonna save us now?
General Sir! It can't be this bad, can it?
Meanwhile I'm hiding under the bed with my C-rations and my inner frenchmen.
sleepyinsaudi |
09.29.06 - 4:18 am | #
general, now that your glorious revolution is complete, will you assume command of our Christian nation?
secaucus |
09.29.06 - 4:22 am | #
Thank You Bush and the Republican Party!
Osama Bin Laden |
09.29.06 - 4:22 am | #
At least in the old days we just whupped them slaves and raped the women, [sniff], we weren't so crass as to spell it out in a law. Heavens! Even the Fugitive Slave Act didn't describe what we'd do to the poor rascals, sir -- that was simply understood amongst gentlemen.
Indeed: ave, atque, vale, USA -- Hail and Farewell. Sorry, Ben, we just couldn't "keep it."
brachiator |
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09.29.06 - 4:29 am | #
As long as we're rewriting the values our nation has so long held dear (from liberty and justice to tyranny and oppression), perhaps we must also rewrite our songs. My humble submission:
America the Beautiful
My country tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty tyranny,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died!
Land of the Pilgrim's torturer's pride!
From every mountain side,
Let freedom screams of the tortured ring!
Karl |
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09.29.06 - 4:30 am | #
When I was little, the nuns told us that the end of the world may come in our lifetime, so we must always stay alert. This must have been what they were talking about.
blondesense |
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09.29.06 - 4:37 am | #
I listen to all the songs on my computer with darkness in the title.
I am 50 years old and so weary of these assholes ron raygun lair union
buster george sr nwo bastard.
now jr never did anything but fuck shit up and let someone else get him a get out of jail free card.
He has done it yet again.
Bill Irvin |
09.29.06 - 4:42 am | #
What's the problem? You have nothing to worry about if you haven't done anything wrong.
Born Too Loose |
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09.29.06 - 4:47 am | #
"We have met the enemy and he is us." -Walt Kelly
JayArra |
09.29.06 - 4:52 am | #
I'm so sorry for your loss. But your legacy lives on, just in other countries.
raincoaster |
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09.29.06 - 5:11 am | #
It was fun while it lasted. Most of the time.
The Venerable Ed |
09.29.06 - 5:17 am | #
And the VAST majority of Americans, going about their busy day, haven't the slightest inkling.
They don't even realize their beloved country was murdered.
Oh. Senator Nelson of Florida: Fuck you, you fucking fuck.
(How does one say that in French?)
Vicki |
09.29.06 - 5:27 am | #
Let Etats-Unis: Quelle dommage!
smitty werbenmanjensen |
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09.29.06 - 5:33 am | #
Er, that's "Les Etats-Unis."
smitty werbenmanjensen |
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09.29.06 - 5:36 am | #
Monsieur Nelson d'Etat Florida, fuckez vous.
St. Patrick |
09.29.06 - 5:38 am | #
Thank you, General. Of the major French blogs, yours is the only one to pay the proper attention to this, and the only one to react to its horror in the appropriate proportion. Kos is obviously bored by the whole thing, Atrios seems to be paying lip service, FDL can't turn off the snark for 10 seconds, etc. The worst thing we can do is pretend this whole thing never happened.
Partch |
09.29.06 - 5:39 am | #
It was flawed from the inception, though few recognized it in our era, and it was bound to end in time, if not in the first civil war then in a second.
You cannot establish a constitution that provides for freedom and inequality at the same time and expect anything but conflict.
Those who have the unequal advantage will protest and ultimately subvert everything to maintain their power, and they have done so.
Now what? Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
whig |
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09.29.06 - 5:41 am | #
OK-- 2 of the 3 branches are beyond redemption. Is there any possibility that the Supremes can save us from this latest horror?
Daryl Cobranchi |
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09.29.06 - 6:01 am | #
"America,
I have something to say.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away!"
-Shrub
Some have compared this to the Fugitive Slave Act, Alien Sedition Law, and the treatment of the Cherokee, and while those were bad, this is oh so much worse. Our current empire was built on the moral foundations that we fought for in WWII, and to shit can in so openly, to just wave our pricks in front of the rest of the world and tell 'em to suck it if they don't like it, to so emphatically emaciate what few crumbs of moral credibility we have left to cop a few votes in order to keep an invidious majority is beyond mind-boggling.
How many people here think that the government should register and/or seize our guns now? Anyone? Anyone?
Bueller?
I turn my back on any Democrat who voted for this travesty. To them, all I have to say, is that when your country needed you, you shrank! When freedom was threatened, you retreated! A "CRAB" LIVING OFF THE HERPES SORE'S OF A TEN DOLLAR HARLOT HAS MORE INTRINSIC VALUE THAN YOU DO!
There are no words in the english language to properly describe your worthlessness, your abject emptiness.
For your sake, if there is a God in this universe, may he/she forgive your gutlessness, FOR I NEVER SHALL!
I weep for america.
Girl Scout |
09.29.06 - 6:11 am | #
Thanks for the morning pick me up.
Col. Klink |
09.29.06 - 6:13 am | #
...canada anyone...
kingweasil |
09.29.06 - 6:15 am | #
Today we cry
Brutally raped, with no recourse to justice, the Lady of Freedom and Enlightenment cries tears of blood.
All that remains is for the President to sign the travesty into law, which he of course will, after a brief retirement to the bathroom where he can jerk off and smear his cum over the Constitution.
The bottom line, dear hearts, is that agents of "our" government can, anywhere in the world, take anybody (=you) off the streets and put you away in a dungeon and do whatever the fuck they want to do to you with no recourse to any independent judge anywhere. All that is required is that the Asshole in Chief, or those to whom He Delegates His Authority, declares you to be an "enemy combatant" or a whatever.
Chuck Cliff |
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09.29.06 - 6:15 am | #
So when do the "Nacht Und Nebel" secret round-ups begin?
We really are in trouble now. Shades of Rome's 'End of Republic Beginning Of Empire' times.
Do I smell civil war in the air?
Ema Nymton |
09.29.06 - 6:25 am | #
Sir, the only way these sniveling yuppie jackboot muthafuckas (pardon my French) are going to win is if they convince people like you to give up.
The propaganda war is not over till the fat Nazi sings, Sir, and your troops need you!
Kol. Kurtz |
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09.29.06 - 6:32 am | #
General, Sir;
I can't find words to properly express my utter and irrevocable contempt for the guttersnipes in the US Congress who voted for this travesty. We soldier on.
Democommie |
09.29.06 - 6:48 am | #
Absurd as it is, the only choice for anyone reading this comment thread is to vote for Democrats. To give up in disgust, and disgusting it certainly is, is to be played yet again by Mr. Rove and his puppet Dubya. But by gawd if the Dems. do get some Congressional power in November, they had better start attacking these fascists p.d.q. Some hope is better than none at all.
Beel |
09.29.06 - 6:53 am | #
Vote for Democrats? Maybe. But what about Lautenberg and Menendez of New Jersey who went along with this crime thereby stopping any filibuster?
purvis ames |
09.29.06 - 6:57 am | #
The moving finger cancelled the Great Writ, and now moves on.
We who give a shit
Must work to get it writ again,
And see those who voted for it move on!
David |
09.29.06 - 7:00 am | #
Bye Bye Miss American Pie...
puhleeze |
09.29.06 - 7:06 am | #
I cry tears of oil; my lamentations are voiced by Cruise missiles.
Once I worked in a cube farm; soon I'll be working as a fruit-picker, which doesn't sound altogether bad at this point, except that I probably won't get paid at all.
Curt |
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09.29.06 - 7:06 am | #
Looking at the bright side... and its not easy to find one... this could be the final nail coffin for this administration if enough light is shown upon it.
Miss Cellania |
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09.29.06 - 7:09 am | #
More than ever, in order to stand the pain, I am forced to defend the therapeutic value of Gorgias and his absolute version of scepticism. Thanks to Bush & Co, reality has become something too repugnant.
Progorgias |
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09.29.06 - 7:11 am | #
Greetings colonials.
May I take this opportunity to offer you the hand of friendship and forgiveness. Don't feel too bad about your inability to govern yourselves, you are after all a very young country - when Great Britain was your age, well, we weren't causing devastation on quite your level but we certainly got up to some youthful high-jinx!
Anyway, you didn't do too badly, I was quite impressed with your constitution, and I firmly believe that with the aid of some well-directed public education programmes and a violent revolution to execute your current political class you may well be ready for self-government within the century.
Toodlepip, what what!
George III |
09.29.06 - 7:11 am | #
I AM ASHAMED TO BE AN AMERICAN TODAY.
Tony DeSantis |
09.29.06 - 7:12 am | #
Actually, I gave the year of birth as 1787, but then obituaries often get dates wrong.
The Republic was on life support for a long time. The GOP Nazis and Democrat Quislings pulled the plug and the feeding tube. It's over. Benjamin Franklin predicted this over 200 years ago:
"There is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
The American people are sheep and sheep are only good for three things: meat, wool and getting fucked in the ass by Texans. Such creatures aren't fit for democracy, which is why it was taken from the American people so easily.
Heyward Jablomey |
09.29.06 - 7:19 am | #
The Lady's lamp has gone out.
There is no darkness as dark as the souls who would kill a shining dream for their own greed.
Liberty and Justice stood proudly in our public buildings, but are no longer regarded. What symbol will the plutocrats erect to mark their era? Daddy Warbucks? With moneybag on high and contracts in hand? Or conquering crusader with trampled bodies underfoot? Imperial eagles?
How many generations will this Dark Age last?
hauksdottir |
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09.29.06 - 7:33 am | #
Pope Bandar bin Turtle |
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09.29.06 - 7:47 am | #
Plus, the Friday news dump is yet to happen.
NSA |
09.29.06 - 7:48 am | #
Well, look on the bright side - perch fishing is up!
NSA |
09.29.06 - 7:50 am | #
General,
The demoncrats haven't won control of Congress yet. This message is premature!
The Rear Admiral |
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09.29.06 - 7:50 am | #
Freedom-It was fun while it lasted.
djtyg |
09.29.06 - 7:52 am | #
Shades of 1933.
frontiereditor |
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09.29.06 - 8:03 am | #
For the first time in my life I'm thinking it's time to start looking into buying some firearms. Just for, you know, home protection and such.
Oh, no, they could never be used for anything else. Home defense only, obviously. And hunting - yeah, hunting. With a 50 round clip. Those deer get hopped up on corn, and it's like they dont feel the first 10 rounds.
Ugluks Flea |
09.29.06 - 8:07 am | #
Meh...I enjoyed the moon landing, and the first three Star Wars films were cool,but i'm not squirting any tears over the death. America was stinking up the place for years before its heart gave out.
bargal20 |
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09.29.06 - 8:14 am | #
After the Funeral by W.H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone
Silence the pianos and with a muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves
He was my North, my South, my East and West
My workingweek and my Sundayrest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong
The stars are not wanted now, put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood
For nothing now can ever come to any good
PiledHighandDeep |
09.29.06 - 8:19 am | #
You're all invited to come up here to Canada and plot the re-taking of your country. ( leave your guns behind )
keith |
09.29.06 - 8:19 am | #
And isn't it comforting to know that the Dear Leader will likely append a signing statement claiming even more power than the bill gives him! USA! USA! USA!
blogenfreude |
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09.29.06 - 8:20 am | #
America's "last throes" commenced 9/11/01, when evil forces within our government were given the master key to weapons of mass deception.
But the spirit of 1776 has not died. As this page shows so eloquently, America still has a pulse. We can't stop our efforts at resusication because "they" won't stop their attempts to inflict the death blow.
For true patriots - those of us who will never surrender - now is the time to fight as never before.
aikane |
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09.29.06 - 8:22 am | #
Habeas corpus lives on, in Georgia. The county, not the state: "Russian captives in Georgia to be produced in court"
Rest in peace, America.
John |
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09.29.06 - 8:35 am | #
We'll all miss you.
MoxieGrrrl |
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09.29.06 - 8:35 am | #
At least my senators in MD didn't cave into the pressure, though one is retiring and the other isn't up for re-election, but goddamn, I expected this would be the one issue, the one that would help the Dems find their fucking spines.
Quite the Catch-22, that they can keep the filibuster as long as they don't use it.
"They may not remember what was said here today, but they will remember what has been done."
Dr. Haus |
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09.29.06 - 8:38 am | #
OMG WHAT'S THAT LOUD FLUSHING SOUND? OUR CREDIBILITY? OUR PLACE AS 'THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORD?'
WAIT WAIT, SEND IN THE WAAAAAAAMBULANCE FOR OUR FREEDOMS, AND OUR FUTURE!
WAIT WAIT, IT'S NOT FASCISM WHEN WE DO IT!
WAIT WAIT, seriously wait a few years, get into power, and then 'render' all the people that allowed this to happen. that would be the supreme irony. or just use something else banned by the Geneva Conventions on them. i happen to own one of the triangular bayonets, which creates triangular wounds, which cannot heal
does that mean i can use it now?
IamClosedMindedToo |
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09.29.06 - 8:39 am | #
For true patriots - those of us who will never surrender - now is the time to fight as never before.
aikane |
Amen.
Learn from the Chinese.
If you can eat, you can do other things. Support local and organic growers.
NSA |
09.29.06 - 8:43 am | #
Yesterday I called Richard Burr's office, even though I knew it was an exercise in futility. As I was explaining to the phone person why I was asking the Senator to vote no on this bill, I started crying. This is not my America.
I used to think that "This too shall pass" and the Republic will stand, no matter what. I don't believe that anymore.
My only hope is that the Democrats take the House this November. And then, that they use their power to stop this meglomaniacal demon.
dee |
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09.29.06 - 8:44 am | #
closedmind: "wait a few years, get into power" -- yes, using the brute power and force of Harry Reid's stealth Ninja opposition technique we'll be in power in no time... just as soon as we're done rolling over and being rolled.
thingwarbler |
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09.29.06 - 8:45 am | #
"The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
Al-Qaeda has invaded the United States and the Democrats are formenting a revolution. His Majesty George, King of the United Kingdom of America, Emperor of Afghanistan and Iraq and Future Emperor of Iran is quite right to do what he has done for the good of the state.
blowback |
09.29.06 - 8:45 am | #
The lights have been turned off on that "shining city on the hill".
Rick |
09.29.06 - 8:50 am | #
As bad as it is, it's not as bleak as Valley Forge in December 1777. The cavalry ain't coming. We have to win in November, both houses, and then repeal this abomination. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
The Ghost of Adolph Rupp |
09.29.06 - 8:55 am | #
As my Vietnamese beautician said as we fell into each othrer's arms crying the day after the 2004 election (Miss Saigon playing in the background), "Ohhhhh nooooo, Whatta we gonna do now?"
northsylvania |
09.29.06 - 8:55 am | #
OK-- 2 of the 3 branches are beyond redemption. Is there any possibility that the Supremes can save us from this latest horror?
Daryl Cobranchi | Homepage | 09.29.06 - 6:01 am | #
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I predict that this will indeed be overturned, when the Supreme Court gets around to it, sometime early in 2009, by a vote of 5 to 4.
Dave from the Lake Effect Zone |
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09.29.06 - 8:57 am | #
yes, i suppose we have no recourse but to support the dems but that my senators voted agst this Nail in the coffin of our once great country is small consolation. Where's our Tom DeLay? Where's our Hammer, pounding the Debbie Stabenow's of this senate who would dare to vote for this horrific bill? Couldn't get enough votes for a fillabuster? Why the Hell not? And, if not for this, for what, for chrisakes.
monica |
09.29.06 - 8:57 am | #
(Eternal) shame on Sens. Lautenberg and Menendez of the state in which I grew up, supposedly blue New Jersey. I hope they're proud.
oudemia |
09.29.06 - 9:01 am | #
Well, it looks like we may well fight a new war for independence, thanks, Congress, thanks for nothing, thanks for a class war, thanks for unnecessary wars. This President is an "enemy combatant," just as much as those who oppose him are, think about that for a second, he never believed in the Bill of Rights, nor the Constitution itself, nor did his party (at least not now, they did long ago). What has this bunch of fools wrought on the country? I'm from a red State (AL) I just want to say, that something must be done to temper these people, they've gone too far. Too far right, I used to be conservative, but now I despise them all, and with a state filled to the brim with ideological brownshirts, and congress apparently the same, what can be done? I miss you, America, now I can only take pride in my ancestral homeland, because America was destroyed by corporate oligarchy and blatant partisanship.
This wasn't for our troops, the CIA or anyone else, it was so Bush and his party could get what they so desperately crave, absolute power. The treasonous cowards now have absolute control. God help us, or maybe the Supreme Court.
spam |
09.29.06 - 9:03 am | #
Hey guys, I know it's a little early yet, but maybe we should start laying the groundwork for an underground resistance network.
Just sayin', we might need to know who our friends are in this dangerous time.
Tahoma Activist |
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09.29.06 - 9:07 am | #
Hold on Justice Stevens !!
in my mind's eye |
09.29.06 - 9:07 am | #
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
—George Orwell
I don't know if Americans—We The People—still care about freedom or not. But if we do, WE will win...easily. In the streets, through non-cooperation with the dictatorship. Not with violence...that's the tool of the enemy.
Enemy combatants: Bush & Cheyney
Publicus |
09.29.06 - 9:08 am | #
"You have a republic, if you can keep it."
Hmm, turns out we couldn't.
230 years is a pretty good run, don't you think? And, we did do some good things.
We helped to defeat Hitler and Tojo, beat the Soviets, and came up with the Marshall plan.
On balance, and I know that a lot of bad shit has been done in the name of America, I think that this country has been a tremendous force for good in the world.
Until the last 6 years.
Someone in a movie somewhere has the line, "I'm going to go to sleep and wake up when there's a new president."
Good night, and good luck.
Joseph Alferio |
09.29.06 - 9:08 am | #
Today I cry.
Tomorrow we march?!?
Ariadne |
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09.29.06 - 9:09 am | #
FUCK MY SENATORS (NJ), FUCK BUSH, FUCK AMERICA, FUCK IT ALL. Canada here I come.
popin-in |
09.29.06 - 9:15 am | #
fuck those people
Realitybasedbob |
09.29.06 - 9:15 am | #
Mein General!
Mostly dead--means partly alive.
Professor Foland |
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09.29.06 - 9:16 am | #
Sir, if the terrorists hate us for our freedoms, and we have no more freedoms, doesn't that mean the terrorists have won? Just askin' ...
blogenfreude |
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09.29.06 - 9:18 am | #
Well done. You are exactly right.
stash |
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09.29.06 - 9:18 am | #
So this is it huh? Someone should write an obituary.
dr4lom |
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09.29.06 - 9:20 am | #
America? Good riddance. I'm sick of apple pie and Fourth of July parades. I'm going home to Appalachia, where we never have considered ourselves part of this travesty.
anne johnson |
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09.29.06 - 9:21 am | #
Jeffersonians, take note. This government no longer guarantees the rights of its citizens. That means it is your duty to change it, by any and all means.
Moderates of the world, unite!
Au revoir, aufwiedersehen, America. Die Luft der Freiheit weht nicht mehr.
Cry, the Beloved Country.
notjonathon |
09.29.06 - 9:25 am | #
R.I.P., America
Didn't take long, did it?
Sorry, Thomas.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" and we weren't up to the task.
George |
09.29.06 - 9:29 am | #
US of A fought against the Savages and the Communists, but let the Terrorists win.
Please remember to shop today to forget the Tyranny.
Cynic in Chgo |
09.29.06 - 9:29 am | #
And it ended with hardly a whimper...especially from the church.
RevPhat |
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09.29.06 - 9:29 am | #
Thanks for all the good times America. You were a great example until a few years ago when you became the textbook definition of hypocrite. Hope you reverse these laws before you all go to Syria.
Kaorimoch |
09.29.06 - 9:31 am | #
America has ceased to be good, and thus, has ceased to be great.
Robster |
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09.29.06 - 9:35 am | #
Our Prime Minister her in Thailand was a chip off the old Bush. (only he was successful in business)
He put his cronies in control. He enriched his friends. He did away with the ideals of justice.
And now he's in exile, eating boiled meats in England.
Sounds like a plan.
Ick of the East |
09.29.06 - 9:38 am | #
"Drove my Chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry."
Water-board bush, cheney, rove, et al NOW!
Terrible |
09.29.06 - 9:39 am | #
Sitting here looking across Lake Erie, northwards, to the land of the free...
Paul Curtin |
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09.29.06 - 9:42 am | #
I'm thrilled with the direction the country has taken! Finally!!!
Satan |
09.29.06 - 9:42 am | #
"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
*cry*
it ain't over, but it just got a whole lot uglier...
Mr. Gonzo |
09.29.06 - 9:42 am | #
Born in blood, honor, and hope.
Died in ink, greed, and fear.
jeb |
09.29.06 - 9:43 am | #
General, Sir, no jokes this time, but let me thank for your leadership, as always. Our great nation has suffered a grave defeat, perhaps the worst of our history, since it is our precious values that have fallen. You've done your part to fight bravely, and I know that you will keep on fighting. Will we prevail another day? Let's never give up hope that we will. *salute*!
Buckeye Hamburger |
09.29.06 - 9:44 am | #
Just wait until some WHITE person gets detained and tortured.
Republicans forget they are vulnerable to this law too.
Perception Manager |
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09.29.06 - 9:47 am | #
Liberty dies to thunderous applause. I thought it was a trite line when I saw the last Star Wars movie. Today I am full of chills and fear and the only thing I see is 99% of this country and 99% of the "smart people" who "inform" basically applauding.
mjb |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 9:53 am | #
Canada, anyone?
So depressed looking at the spin of the MSM and the lies of the neocons "America is Safer"; "We need these tools in the War on Terror", etc.
We need a miracle to stop this country from going to hell in a handbasket.
(Sorry, unable to snark. The wound is too fresh.)
Pray for America.
.
PFC Pantywaist |
09.29.06 - 9:53 am | #
At age 50, for the first time, I truly fear for the future of my country. I find it truly ironic that the same people who claim not to trust some government bureaucrat to choose your doctor, or to manage your old age social insurance, will turn around and trust the government to identify who should be locked away, tortured, and never have the opportunity for a review in the light of day.
Under this bill, they even take away the right to see the evidence against you. But you do have the right to respond to it. (huh?) This is such a travesty that today, I truly mourn for my country and I want to hold onto any hope that something may be done to reverse it.
So I will go forth and vote for Democrats, because even though they were too spineless to stop it, at least they were not its engineers. And the turncoat Democrats who made a filibuster impossible can rot in hell, if such a thing exists, along with every Republican in that godforsaken place.
Have they gone about updating the lists yet? That would be next, correct? You will see that we are excluded from any lists. Or should we be included? What is white is now black sir. Please advise.
smuckelton heroworship |
09.29.06 - 9:56 am | #
Remember that your worst enemy is your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
swurgle |
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09.29.06 - 9:58 am | #
General, Sir!
Yes, this is a pretty sad week for America. But I'm not giving up, quitting, rolling over and dying, or any of that.
Here's a long list of good people running this November. Most are running against long odds. I've given what I can to their campaigns, and I'm going to keep supporting them.
Remember this: Nothing makes Reichsmarshall Rove happier than hearing us say "OK there's no point voting for a Democrat" or "I'm just giving up".
ifthethunderdontgetya |
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09.29.06 - 10:00 am | #
Keep shining the light on the bastards and their crimes. Send some cash to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and your favorite bloggers and alternative media.
Auntie Claire's Hand |
09.29.06 - 10:01 am | #
The US swallowed poison when the right wing "conservative" Supreme Court appointed a President.
Even the US, apparently, did not have a sufficient Constitution to survive the poison in its system.
What a horrible legacy for those who died in the World Trade Center. Their deaths have provided the rationale for legalized torture and the end of habeas corpus.
The facism that our nation displayed during the McCarthy era simply went underground. Now it blossoms on right wing poison, killing our most fundamental values and rights.
Luckily for me, I can see Ontario from here.
BuffaloPundit |
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09.29.06 - 10:02 am | #
This is a terrible defeat. It is not the end. WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!! There will be other defeats. But if we don't lose heart, we will win.
Judicious |
09.29.06 - 10:04 am | #
They want us gone and they're gonna stop until they get what they want. Pass the ammo.
phil |
09.29.06 - 10:05 am | #
Ooops, they're are NOT gonna stop until they get what they want. More ammo, if you please.
phil |
09.29.06 - 10:07 am | #
We are now at the mercy of the Supreme Court.
General Sir, the constitution had a good run, Sir.
Over and Out.
I'm off to my secure bunker, in an undisclosed location.
willyjsimmons |
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09.29.06 - 10:09 am | #
We are now at the mercy of the Supreme Court.
General Sir, the constitution had a good run, Sir.
Over and Out.
I'm off to my secure bunker, in an undisclosed location.
willyjsimmons |
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09.29.06 - 10:09 am | #
General, I've lived to see the last fifth of the USA's all-too-short life. What a sad end. What a tragic, hideous, lamentable excuse for a Senate - and a leader.
What a dismal morning - the first day after the Republic.
kirk james murphy, m.d. |
09.29.06 - 10:10 am | #
Het.sex.yrs.
An Enquiring Mind |
09.29.06 - 10:15 am | #
this is not over. i swear.
peter |
09.29.06 - 10:15 am | #
My heart weeps. My soul is flooded with despair. I'm 54 years old and have 5 small grandsons. What have we done to their future? Somebody, help us. We all, as a nation, will pay a heavy price.
U.S.Constitution, RIP. You were a magnificent, living, breathing work of art. And I'm glad for my first 53 years I knew you. Goodbye, my friend. Vaya con Dios.
HillCountryGal |
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09.29.06 - 10:16 am | #
Revolution will come when they treat us all like they've been treating the Blacks.
::mwah:: |
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09.29.06 - 10:16 am | #
Let's all hope that we have finally hit bottom and can begin the climb out of this dark hole.
Kevin Robbins |
09.29.06 - 10:17 am | #
My thirteen year old daughter cried. She is not old enough to even remember the other USA. RIP....finally, peace?
latiffanytheflyingbaboon |
09.29.06 - 10:19 am | #
Woke up this morning and the earth was turning a bit quicker, only due to the momentum of our Founding Fathers aggregate tumbling in their coffins.
In their, and in the dear departed United States of America's memory:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain/the King of the United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Incredibly, that august statement now publicly uttered, can and will be cause enough for its proponents to be Disappeaared.
ME Spiegel |
09.29.06 - 10:19 am | #
the story is not over. we have faced dark days before and will take back our country.
thank you Mon General. where you lead we will follow.
Ray Charles |
09.29.06 - 10:24 am | #
We'll have to get together and do it again sometime. This time we'll remember election integrity and making Lobbying absolutely illegal if money and/or gifts are involved.
Thank you David Dreier for turning your head.......it helped put a face to cowardice and greet. You were pretty though!
Jennifer |
09.29.06 - 10:26 am | #
What's the problem? You have nothing to worry about if you haven't done anything wrong.
What do you mean - they don't have to tell you why you were "detained" so they actually don't have to have any real reason at all. Then, the water-boarding starts - sounds like fun...
I hope you are ready to have a sears diehard hooked up to your genitals.
Anonymous |
09.29.06 - 10:28 am | #
A corpse is a corpse
Of corpse, of corpse
And no one can salvage a corpse
Of corpse
Unless, of corpse, the corpse that's corpsed
Is the former USA
See you all underground.
Remote Exploit |
09.29.06 - 10:29 am | #
As I went home from work last night, I was acutely aware of all the people around me who apparently didn't even know that their country had taken a huge jump down the road to dictatorship.
I tried to think of ways to frame this issue so most people would understand, but I couldn't figure out a way to work new cars, status symbols or 'winning' into it.
A conversation with one of my Republican bellweathers confirmed that I don't have a clue how to convey the enormity of this law to the unaware. He just said, "Eh. It just applies to terrorists. Stop worrying."
Pray for us all. Pray for true freedom. Work for change. Stay strong.
JillK. |
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09.29.06 - 10:31 am | #
You know some years, a lifetime, ago Keith Olberman was a third rate sportscaster in L.A., on KTLA not even network. I said to a buddy the other day "If you had told me KO would turn out to be the guttsiest journalist on t.v., I'd have said 'Yeah. Sure. When America gets warrantless wiretaps, secret prisons and state-sanctioned torture.'" I am glad my father (WWII Vet, counter-intel.) isn't around to see this. Our nation may not be dead, but it has been taken hostage by cowards who would trade their birthright for 30 pieces of silver. Por eso somos como somos.
Specialist G |
09.29.06 - 10:31 am | #
What's the problem? You have nothing to worry about if you haven't done anything wrong.
The problem is that now the word "wrong" is being defined by sociopaths.
JillK. |
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09.29.06 - 10:32 am | #
They might have forgotten about honor and liberty, but we can and shall remember.
speedwell |
09.29.06 - 10:33 am | #
So, do we still have the 2nd amendment or is the constitution just toilet paper now?
musicsleuth |
09.29.06 - 10:35 am | #
This is our Blood and Honor Law. There is no going back from this atrocity. Senate Democrats who voted the unlimited power to detain and torture US citizens to this Resident are the greatest criminals in our nation's history. May as well have been the post-fire Reichstag. Happy dictatorship, everyone. See you in Canada.
comsympinko |
09.29.06 - 10:35 am | #
"Liberty dies to thunderous applause. I thought it was a trite line when I saw the last Star Wars movie. Today I am full of chills and fear and the only thing I see is 99% of this country and 99% of the "smart people" who "inform" basically applauding."
I'm tired of the Democrats acting like Senator Jar Jar Binks "Weesa votes to give the President dictatorial powers." in Attack of the Clones. What a useless bunch of cowards.
Heyward Jablomey |
09.29.06 - 10:37 am | #
a very very sad time . We need to change the flag to include that guy with the hood and wires .
Anonymous |
09.29.06 - 10:39 am | #
Ah am mourning, even as Ah am making plans to move back to Frahnce...
Actor212 |
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09.29.06 - 10:40 am | #
I just went to http://senate.gov/ to see the results, and what greets me on the home page?
"We the People"
Celebrating the Constitution.
Oh, this irony is not optional.
irony_optional |
09.29.06 - 10:40 am | #
Thank you for creating this blog.
Thank you General Washington, for being the first President of the United States. You showed the world and all who came after you how to do a job none hade ever attempted before. I'm so very sorry we've let you down.
Thank you President Clinton, for being the last President of the United States. I didn't always agree with your policies, you were the last of many great men and women who kept the Faith - you upheld and defended the Constitution of the United States of America.
And to all the rest who came in between those two, thank you. Some of them were worse than others but none so evil as to destroy the country they swore an Oath to protect.
Raise a glass and drink a toast to the memory of the Founding Fathers, surely writhing in agony, to the men and women who died, are still dying, for their country, to all those who remember what freedom means.
Laura Elizabeth |
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09.29.06 - 10:44 am | #
Well, you can't win 'em all I guess. Roger and out...
Tinky Winky |
09.29.06 - 10:45 am | #
Yes, it was nice while it lasted. We can say, we remember it when...
My heart is broken......
TulsaGirl |
09.29.06 - 10:46 am | #
I've lived in a false world. I raised my children to never hurt another, telling them is hurts them by making them see others as objects. I'd grown up thinking that torture was an ineffective methodology because the victims say anything and everything.
I patriotically assumed that our justice system and moral example of doing "the right thing" were a beacon to the world. I read too much propaganda and believed that we'd all move to future where "truth, justice and the American way", in all its wondrous glory would be the way the world would thrive.
Thanks to the Republicans in Congress, aided and abetted by a bunch of spineless Democratic Representatives and Senators I've been disabused of this false concepts.
I can't seem to muster the strength to thank them.
charlie |
09.29.06 - 10:48 am | #
You want to know where the Democratic Party's Tom DeLay and Karl Rove are? NOWHERE. And we should be thankful.
Rove and DeLay and Cheney et al are sucessful because they are corrupt con men, who will sell out any and all sense of loyalty, honor, and principle in a heartbeat. They trade the long-term health of our country for an immediately gratifying "win", and like a drug addict they have to keep upping the destructive doesage higher and higher to get the desired effect, until there's nothing left but an emaciated shell of a once-beautiful, vibrant country.
This is not a coincidence: it is a direct result of their policies and tactics. This happens because they put nothing--not even God Him/Her/Itself--above their ambition and avarice. It's hubris of the worst sort: doing harm because they can, because they enjoy it. I've watched them destroy the state of Texas for the past ten years, and now I've watched them do the same to America.
We need fewer men like this in politics, not more, and if the current corruption investigations are allowed to continue, we will get exactly that. And maybe, just maybe, we can purge this infection from the body politic and start on the slow road to recovery.
We do not need a Democratic karl Rove or Tom Delay, we need to reinstate the House ethics rules and strengthen them, so that anyone convicted of bribery is automatically kicked out of Congress and not allowed to work for a lobbying firm or campaign ever again.
We need to destroy the revoloving door between congressional staff and lobbying firms that Tom Delay built.
We need the Fairness Doctrine resinstated. We need to reduce media consolidation.
We need campaign reform.
We do not need more dirty tricksters who would send their grandmothers to Gitmo if it upped their stock price 5% this quarter.
I swear, if the Dems ever become controlled by the equivalents of these evil con men, I will leave the party. And that's the only thing that will make me walk away.
Dorothy |
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09.29.06 - 10:48 am | #
It's just in a deep sleep. A temporary coma. It'll wake up. C'mon give it a gooooood shake, say in a couple of years or so.
kate r |
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09.29.06 - 10:50 am | #
America was fun while she lasted. Hopefully, in the future when they raise a toast they will think of the good times.
Harlequin |
09.29.06 - 10:51 am | #
I couldn't sleep last night.
Don't keep this site dark too long 'mon general. We need your inner frenchman.
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hit_escape |
09.29.06 - 10:56 am | #
Fuck you fuck you FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
comsympinko |
09.29.06 - 10:56 am | #
It only took six years for other people to realize this. It only took six years to slowly dismantle the USA. Six years in full view of the world. Six years the Democrats could have done something, said something that would indicate that they are at all different from the Republicans. Six years to grow back their balls and ovaries. Instead, those who are purportedly elected to allegedly represent 'we the people' turn out to represent no one, unless you're a wallet. And the way things are going, you could soon be a wallet, or even a lamp shade.
Thank you, Supreme Court, for your 2000 "gift" to the people, which paved the way.
Loonesta |
09.29.06 - 10:59 am | #
My biggest fear now is that we'll lose Justice Stevens before the Supreme Court declares the bill unconstitutional.
If we don't win back Congress in November, I think I might be headed for Sweden or Canada. In my case, I might do it regardless as I've already been warned about a massive callup of reservists in December. I've already served enough time for the administration's wars and won't serve another day.
Hamasi |
09.29.06 - 11:00 am | #
This means war!
These idiots will take over this country without a fight. They will declare martial law and put all of us that are against the war in prison.
I wonder if the average american realizes what is going on?
Diane |
09.29.06 - 11:02 am | #
A three part plan:
1) Contribute/VOLUNTEER for the upcoming election. Hold your nose and vote for even crappy quisling Dems. March in the streets.
2) Buy guns. Store food. Learn to use a compass/map. Have a plan to run and hide. Pack an emergency bag you can grab on your way out the door.
3)http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/faq/immigrating-
1.html
TJ |
09.29.06 - 11:05 am | #
We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when,
But we'll meet again some sunny day...
Monz |
09.29.06 - 11:05 am | #
The other point I want to make is that apparently last night's episode of "Gray's Anatomy" was great.
It's all my co-workers at super-mega-healthcare-corp. are talking about.
Any suggestions for framing are welcome - especially for the Billionaires. I'm still going to fight before I leave.
JillK. |
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09.29.06 - 11:08 am | #
Can we now drop the false dialectic now?
I sing this to the Bushusefools at the Anti War demos I go to -
I'm Proud to Be an American, Where at least I think I'm Free
Send our Children to Kill and Die in a Foreign Country
Stand Up and get Cut! down
on some forsaken dayyy!
Ain't no doubt about it
Blood covers the U S AAAAA
I propose a campaign to get every so called Rep. of the people to walk out just as BUsh is about to give his "State of the Union Speech. Short of that they should stand and turn their backs on him and remain so.
Yeah they will pay a price, the Sergeant at Arms will be called upon to retrieve them or make them sit down. We can be on the outside waiting for them if they get through the blocked doors.
I'm just a lowly blogger, but maybe with others such an event can be accomplished.
I wrote every member of Congress last year to do the above.
As I have not given up non violence yet, will somebody please join me in this campaign? I would like to focus the intial energy to Reps and Senators who Voted agaiinst these latest measures and who voted against the War.
Since all rights have been abolished we really don't need a Congress anyway.
Peace. Democracy. It's possible. If We Unite in Common Cause that is.
I'm ready to listen to any other ideas, except ones that include the false saving grace of getting (Democrats Elected".
I'll be down on Our Mall in DC tommorrow. I'll visit the people at Camp Democracy. I'll be with my 2 y.o. son. I'll be wearing my white t shirt with Bush's pic encaptioned with "Daddy's Little War Criminal". I'm a white middleaged overweight male with brown hair.
If anybody would like to meet me you know where to find me.
Human |
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09.29.06 - 11:09 am | #
Hi everyone, as an admitted and recovering alcoholic I see many parallels between this country, Bush and the citizenry, without going into all the boring details lets just say that an alcoholic has to hit bottom and or experience a moment of clarity before the recovery process can begin. Most Americans have stumbled blindly through the world not noticing the damage done to this country and ourselves by our rescource abusing life style, foriegn policies and political apathy. Let the 12 stepping begin, remember, it is allways darkest before the dawn. call me nuts but this what I believe, love you all, we can do it just keep trying. Tom
Capt. Bat Guano |
09.29.06 - 11:10 am | #
...finaly. The real face of America!
Good luck and good night.
Winston |
09.29.06 - 11:10 am | #
I can only hope that on January 22nd, 2008, President Clinton declares George W. Bush to be an enemy combatant, and that she has him held in secret and subjected to 'harsh interrogation' indefinetly until he confesses to working for Bin Laden.
Of course, that presumes there will be a 2008 election. Nevermind.
Read this for some hope and a strategy. Join us in fighting.
JillK. |
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09.29.06 - 11:17 am | #
Although we have taken a great flying leap off the moral high ground, don't forget that democracy and morality live on in the European Union, Canada, India and many other places. As our economy continues to implode, perhaps these nations can exert economic as well as political pressure on our government to obey international law and restore human rights. In the meantime, welcome to Argentina del Norte.
GBleudot |
09.29.06 - 11:17 am | #
Impeach them.
Remove them.
Try them.
Convict them.
Hang them.
Michael |
09.29.06 - 11:18 am | #
It's all been said but I'll repeat what I keep saying to myself. This is fucking unbelieveable.
The Senate should be charged with a crime. They took an oath to uphold the constitution and they broke that oath.
pissed off patricia |
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09.29.06 - 11:18 am | #
Mon General:
Merci.
And mercy is what we need now. Today we mourn; today I weep for my country and my people. And tomorrow, as you've so well advised, I'll begin to fight again. But for today, I grieve the death of a nation.
Lilith |
09.29.06 - 11:19 am | #
I blame Passion of the Christ.
If it was good enough for Jesus...
a dark day indeed.
Nihilix |
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09.29.06 - 11:20 am | #
Dorothy ... sorry to touch a nerve. i'm on your side. i was just trying to say that i wish there was some leadership in the dem party ... someone who could have rallied them agst this evil.
monica |
09.29.06 - 11:21 am | #
I studied the founders in college, graduate school, and law school. I loved the majesty and energy of the great democratic vbision. I made made political philosphy my concentration and love.
That was 30-40 years ago and I've referred much of my thinking to that framework ever since. I've watched the resilience of the democratic process gradually slip under the onslaught of the right wing in this country. Like many, I'm depressed and fear this cycle will not end, or end well.
At such times, one looks, on the temporal level, to the Supreme Court to push back against tyranny. I'm not particularly sanguine about that-- or whether the executive and legislature would even abide by restraint were it ordered.
DonS |
09.29.06 - 11:22 am | #
French beret, anyone?
watertiger |
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09.29.06 - 11:23 am | #
Good riddance to bad rubbish. The civilized world is dancing on your grave.
marcki al canuckstani |
09.29.06 - 11:23 am | #
She shall ever remain the shining example that leads to the founding of a Second Republic.
LIBERTY!
John Adams |
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09.29.06 - 11:24 am | #
We'll just have to build it again. Dead on John Adams.
station agent |
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09.29.06 - 11:27 am | #
Here's some words I took to heart as a teenager.....I still want to dream...
Imagine
by John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
sweettp2063 |
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09.29.06 - 11:27 am | #
All this, jsut to prevent terrorism...
Imagine if we fought this hard to stop poverty, or cancer...
segmentation fault |
09.29.06 - 11:30 am | #
Nice idea. Too bad we couldn't make it work.
thanks for everything, general.
tena |
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09.29.06 - 11:32 am | #
Such great ideas people.
Keep blogging and supporting Democrats.
All the problems will go away.
Any constructive ideas out there?
Anonymous |
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09.29.06 - 11:33 am | #
Freedom, freedom, we need freedom.
Freedom from government. Freedom from criminals in expensive suits. Freedom from war machines that feed on blood money.
i salute you sir. consider this my 21 gun salute to a great nation. however, i was at the funeral for its first death, in Dec of 2000. i guess only the assassins and a few knew then that that was truly a death blow.
chicago dyke, is it fascism ye |
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09.29.06 - 11:34 am | #
Fucking Drama Queens...... "The U.S is dead!!!Oh my Gawd,it's dead!!Waaaaaa!.....Same lame-ass shit that you were screaming back when Reagan was president....come up with some new material,please....you're boring the rest of us.
libsarereactionaryidiots |
09.29.06 - 11:35 am | #
General, Sir, I am weeping for our nation. It must be tears of joy.
Wannabeanona |
09.29.06 - 11:36 am | #
Imagine if we fought this hard to stop poverty, or cancer...
Can Halliburton make an obscene amount of money by gouging the government in these endeavors? And can we terrorize and humiliate other people and debase ourselves in the process? If so, then these will be Our Leader's next great projects. After war with Iran, that is.
John |
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09.29.06 - 11:37 am | #
I mourn the loss of my country.
plantsman, lowercase |
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09.29.06 - 11:37 am | #
Bush is Billy Mumy and we're the townspeople about to be wisked off to the cornfield by an out-of-control child with unlimited power.
"Of the people, by the people, and for the people" -- beautiful words.
Maybe someday some country will actually try it.
Gummo |
09.29.06 - 11:38 am | #
Who said "Hang Them"? Enemy combatant! Enemy combatant!
I can hear them bleating now.
Why don't we start the civil war now so I can have some hope of protecting my 4 year old.
Either we get rid of this filthy Republican psychotically transmitted disease or we're dead.
Liberty or death and all that.
phil |
09.29.06 - 11:38 am | #
It isn't dead, yet. Well, not all the way dead. Just mostly dead. Can we delay the wake until Nov. 8, please?
Snow, Frank Shrillnatra |
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09.29.06 - 11:39 am | #
you're boring the rest of us.
libsarereactionaryidiots | 09.29.06 - 11:35 am | #
Blah blah blah... if you're bored, find another blog to entertain you.
Drina |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 11:39 am | #
libsarereactionaryidiots | 09.29.06 - 11:35 am | #
Hey douchebag, shouldn't you be busy blowing up a federal building somewhere?
John |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 11:39 am | #
JG, Humanity will prevail. This will not stand. Weep for a while for those we've lost, but keep on growing.
come up with some new material,please....you're boring the rest of us.
libsarereactionaryidiots
It is you who are in desperate need of new material.
plantsman, lowercase |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 11:40 am | #
Nihilix--
There's your answer. The Fucking Passion Of The Fucking Christ. Mel Fucking Gibson's snuff spectacular. If a fake Jesus can be fake whipped into a fake bloody pulp, why can't a real Muslim be real whipped into a real bloody pulp? Klassic Khristian Konservative logik.
comsympinko |
09.29.06 - 11:40 am | #
I'm not ready to give up yet. We can fix this! Gimme some duct tape and plastic wrap and we'll encase all current politicians within their offices and unplug their phones!
Then we'll push the reset button and put Clinton back in office.
And find Monica a job in Hawaii.
ellroon |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 11:41 am | #
Like many, I'm depressed and fear this cycle will not end, or end well.
it's not a cycle, it's a trajectory...
the gun was fired on November 22, 1963...
that 'single bullet' has now killed the Constitution...
i always knew the Constitution was a fragile thing...i never thought i'd out-live it...
.
Woody Guthrie's Guitarron |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 11:42 am | #
The country didn't die yesterday. It still has some life left in it as long as we all remember those who voted to end our liberties and kill off our ideals. We must remember those who voted in favor the the Military Commissions Act, and we must hold them accountable. Republicans and democrats alike, all who voted for this travesty must be removed from office as soon as possible.
In the meantime, we can only hope the the Supreme Court still stands as a co-equal branch of government. That those justices still remember their duty to the nation and its constitution. If they fail us, then we really are doomed.
Victor |
09.29.06 - 11:42 am | #
I hope that in my lifetime, I can look back on this horrible period in history, tell my granddaughter about all we lost, and maybe, just maybe, we can win back again.
I still hope. Admittedly, it's pretty thin this morning.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 11:42 am | #
libsarereactionaryidiots—
Sorry to bore you. Go back to your gulag for entertainment. This is the reality-based community.
Publicus |
09.29.06 - 11:42 am | #
May the principles of equality, justice and liberty rise like a phoenix from ashes blown from here to some courageous land.
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cs art is bread |
09.29.06 - 11:43 am | #
What benefit will it be to you
if you gain the whole world
but lose your own soul?
(Mark 8:36)
I feel the US has sold its soul and hasn't even gained world. Never been less proud of being a citizen of this country (I can't even bring myself to call it America)
MDK |
09.29.06 - 11:43 am | #
God, I am so ashamed that it happened on my watch.
Sorry to the men that fought to found the republic and defend it for so many years.
uptown_NYChick |
09.29.06 - 11:48 am | #
JillK.
Continuing to support Democrats is a dead end. Greenwald is full of his own propaganda.
Any constructive ideas people?
Human |
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09.29.06 - 11:48 am | #
If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. James Madison
Noam Sayin |
09.29.06 - 11:49 am | #
My heart is broken. I thought we were better than this. RIP America. We live in Amerika now.
Rhiannon |
09.29.06 - 11:49 am | #
I hope this is just a memorial General sir.
I too cry for a nation lost. And for my children.
mer |
09.29.06 - 11:49 am | #
By their fruits shall you know them.
LindyH |
09.29.06 - 11:49 am | #
I just wonder...those Dems that voted for the torture bill...just what does Bush have on them? naked pics w/kids??? wha???? I want them ALL outed, DEMS REPS all of them..I wish someone would come out against them ala Karen Silkwood. Also, the gov' managed to dope the younger generation into apathy with their ridlin and zoloft etc young ppl don't give a shit about politics or activism...Canada, here I come.
ellie2 |
09.29.06 - 11:50 am | #
I’d have to say, I once thought terrorists were just religious nuts trying to get their 40 virgins. I thought 9/11 was a cowardly, yet simplistic attack.
Today, I realize how sophisticated crashing unarmed civilian airplanes into buildings really was. That single move has our country perilously close to destruction. Why hasn't Al Queda attacked again? Because they don't need to. We'll do far more damage to ourselves than some cult of nuts with AK47s ever will.
We have played right into their hands. Knowing how badly we needed to go into Iraq, and being able to foresee (unlike us) the costly aftermath, they were able to bank on us depleting our treasury. Of course, this means more cuts to social programs and schools, ensuring we will be weak in the future. Then we really go the extra mile to appease them and take away our own rights to show them just how tough we are.
We now have secret prisons and full government control of our personal lives with no court oversight. The mere mention of terrorism and you can disappear forever with no trial. Hell, who needs evidence when you have torture. With torture, it's only a matter of time before you get whatever confession you like.
Welcome to Cold War USSR. Goverment control, fear, economy being drained to support the military, secret prisons, the works. Being the ones to set the demise of the Soviet Union in motion, you’d think we’d see this coming. I guess not. I am now convinced Al Queda did.
The top scientific minds and universities in the world are here in the US. The most advanced country in the world being beaten down by a bunch of pink unicorn zealots. How embarrassing. They aimed to make us destroy our own country out of fear. They have been more effective than I had ever imagined.
Steve |
09.29.06 - 11:52 am | #
Just to further annoy the slime molds that passed that bill, I will eulogize my home country in the manner of my co-religionists:
May the memory of the United States of America comfort the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
May the memory of the United States of America endure as a blessing.
("Fat chance" was the first thing that flashed into my mind when I typed the second phrase...)
Mrs. Tarquin Biscuitbarrel |
09.29.06 - 11:52 am | #
Jesus wept.
lieinveigleobfuscate |
09.29.06 - 11:56 am | #
A Menendez boycott? How about a write in campaign for some worthwhile NJ progressive? Menendez looks ot be the most vulnerable.
Enemy of the police state |
09.29.06 - 11:56 am | #
No surrender for me. I will fight them until hell freezes over, then, Sir, I shall fight them on the ice!
Nina |
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09.29.06 - 11:56 am | #
"What's the problem? You have nothing to worry about if you haven't done anything wrong." -- Born Too Loose.
*******************
Not YET, perhaps...not TODAY, perhaps -- but the problem with letting a juggernaut like this loose into the world is that it's much harder to stop once it's in motion, and it doesn't always stop when and where you think it will. You might want to think again before turning a blind eye -- the possibility exists that one day, you may find those words coming back to bite you in the backside.
"When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent -- I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent -- I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out -- I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews, I did not speak out -- I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out."
Pastor Martin Niemöller
"Those who refuse to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it" -- George Santayana
Bluestocking |
09.29.06 - 11:56 am | #
Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.
America the plans they made put an end to you...
You'll live on in my heart.
Mary |
09.29.06 - 11:57 am | #
When will waterboarding derived evidence become admissible in state and federal courts?
teacherx |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 11:57 am | #
"Of course the people don't want war ...but, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship ... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
-- Hermann Goering, one of the original Nazis at his Nuremberg trial in 1946
Sound familiar?
My heart aches, and I am filled with horror, by this view ... from where we have been dragged.
generally indecent |
09.29.06 - 11:57 am | #
what do good people do when their country becomes a dictatorship?
jami |
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09.29.06 - 11:59 am | #
way to fuck it up, America.
Freedom Hater |
09.29.06 - 12:02 pm | #
Just the battle SIR.
Hearts and minds can be changed SIR.
In a heterosexual way of course, SIR.
I never believed Cletis, he is a liar SIR.
Redwretch |
09.29.06 - 12:03 pm | #
I've never been as scared in my 65 years. If I were religious, I'd say there were evil people in DC. But no, it's simply fascism.
Welcome to the Fourth Reich.
If we don't get organized, there will be pure anarchy. And if we don't throw those fools in DC out ASAP, we're in bigger trouble than we think.
Hug your children, your loved ones...practice kindness, but be prepared.
Mad as Hell |
09.29.06 - 12:04 pm | #
I have two dd214's. Twice I enlisted in the service of my country, a country whose motives were somehow held in high regard by most of the world.
Now I have to say goodbye to the old country. We have officially become a goose stepping nation reminescent of pre wwII germany. I greive over this change, it tears at my soul. Evil has crept over the nation, taken it's soul. I will vote again in Nov to out the evil, but I doubt the votes will be counted and there is a good chance we won't even be allowed to vote, should GWBushit decide to nuke Iran.
I am ready to fight for our constitution, against all enemies, internal and external. But one person is going to be somewhat inefective and I fear that I will just become what's his name tilting at windmills.
Fear will be our neighbor from here on out. Will voicing my opinion on this site be construed as aiding and abetting the terrorists? I'm stunned.
I feel as though pearl harbor has just happened to us as a nation; the twin towers falling left less impresion on me than this presidential perfidity, this wounding of the constitution. I cry for my country.
Kerry N. Aldrich
a once proud american
kerryinalaska |
09.29.06 - 12:04 pm | #
Inspired by Karl, here is an elegy:
My Country 'Tis of Thee
My country 'tis of thee,
Land of blood tyranny,
Of thee I sing.
Land for which no Cheney died!
Land of the torturer's pride!
From every mountain side,
Let the victims' screams ring!
My country tis of thee,
Sweet land of hypocrisy,
Of thee I sing.
Land where King George he lies!
Land which the Senate despised,
Set every archaic Right aside,
The Constitution's an enemy thing!
My native country, thee,
Once land of liberty,
Thy loss I mourn.
Now Gonzalez' legal warp,
Condi Rice's deceit so sharp,
And the foolish Neocon sharks,
Have made thee forlorn.
Let false words swell the breeze,
As media propagandists please
Their masters' dictates.
Now reason and truth fall dead,
Find no place in George's head,
Which cannot but prevaricate.
Fundamentalist God to thee,
Enemy of liberty,
to thee we sing.
Long lead us ever right,
With Falwell's bigoted light,
And shield us from all wise insight,
Make us stupid like our King!
bob |
09.29.06 - 12:05 pm | #
Here's another, also inspired by Karl.
America the Beautiful
Oh beautiful, for spacious skies,
Where NSA taps our breath,
For Ashcroft's drap-ed travesties
Which avert our eyes from breasts!
America! America! Where God speaks loud to W,
And Man-on-Dog slays all
Who dare to bugger, too.
Oh beautiful, for Cheney's heart
Filth-filled and black as coal,
And Karl Rove and Frist and Snow,
Who've made real the tyrant's goal!
America! America! May God cast decency aside;
And confirm the Fool that's in control,
Thy Chosen Son, Our Guide!
Oh tragical, for heroes killed
And maimed in pointless strife,
Ill equipped and duped by Rummy's skills,
While the rich gain richer life!
America! America! May God thy Crimes approve,
And with just one touch by Robertson,
All secular error remove!
Oh hate filled land,
Of Lott's and Allen's dreams,
Purged of Muslims, Blacks, Mex, and
Gays and liberals, no more puffs of cream!
America! America! May George reign free and evilly,
Ridding our land of brotherhood, from sea to shining sea!
bob |
09.29.06 - 12:06 pm | #
So it's a done deal? It's all over now?
Peanutcat |
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09.29.06 - 12:06 pm | #
Relax! I haven't seen anything about this on the teevee, so it's obviously not really happening.
username |
09.29.06 - 12:08 pm | #
I'm already volunteering and contributing to my local Dem candidate. But I feel moved to do some Freeway Blogging. Here are some I'm toying with to wake up my local motorists.
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Bush can now jail and torture anyone, for any reason, FOREVER with no trial.
Is this AMERICA?
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BUSH:
OIL
WAR
DEATH
DISATER
DICTATORSHIP
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Each Month we spend
8 BILLION US Dollars in Iraq.
For WHAT?
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Just some thoughts that will soon adorn my local overpasses.
I think it is safe to say that Heir Bush has managed, in six short years, to shit on every grave of every serviceman and woman who gave their lives in the name of freedom for this country. Quite the accomplishment.
I pray you will forgive my inner frenchman for wishing that the entire Bush Crime Family will meet the same fate they have condemned the rest of us to.
I am now waiting for Barbara Bush (Sr) to tell us all "Let Them Eat Cake" so that the revolution may begin.
InternetJunkie |
09.29.06 - 12:15 pm | #
Maybe it's because I'm still in the denial step of the grieving process, but I still have a glimmer of hope that this will be overturned. Maybe by the Supreme Court, maybe if the Democrats take the House back in November.Maybe this,maybe that.
Scroll down to
"Congress is powerless to absolve Bush of capital crimes and torture charges"
If you're looking for any glimmer of hope, you might find it there.
mike in philly |
09.29.06 - 12:15 pm | #
Are we safe yet?
patrick |
09.29.06 - 12:19 pm | #
Just when I think I have an original idea, I discover that, once again, I am not worthy of the General.
It truly is a sad, sad day ...
Unholy Moses |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 12:21 pm | #
The United States of America - an interesting & informative experiment which, sadly, has now ended. Let's take what we've learned & try again...
Tom Thumb |
09.29.06 - 12:22 pm | #
I did love my country. Until last night.
Daimeon |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 12:23 pm | #
Gallows in the Rose Garden. Gallows up and down Pennsylvania Ave.
Beel |
09.29.06 - 12:24 pm | #
Where were the protesters in the streets before yesterdays vote? Where were the sit ins,the marches,the speeches?
America died with a whimper,and we all stood and watched.
BlueWoman |
09.29.06 - 12:26 pm | #
I wonder if this is what it felt like living in Berlin in the 1930's?
Librul Minion |
09.29.06 - 12:27 pm | #
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: democracy just doesn't work.
Kent Brockman |
09.29.06 - 12:33 pm | #
Yep, I feel that way too, General -- like I woke up in a different country this morning. And though it had its faults, I still very much liked the old one. It had a lot to be proud of. Now, not so much.
Thank you for the many hard-hitting laughs; I believe that you are quite possibly the best satirist on the internet. See you in Gitmo.
nashtbrutusandshort |
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09.29.06 - 12:37 pm | #
I think Dennis Perrin said it best on this topic here:
And while we're on the topic, is there any clearer evidence of how full of shit Americans are when it comes to self-perception than all this hue and cry about torture? Online libs (and a few conservatives) are wringing their hands over the idea that True Americans don't support torture; that this barbarous practice does not reflect American values. Oh, grow the fuck up and read some history. You don't have to go very far back. Start with the Trail of Tears and work from there. And you might want to research about how rape in prison is considered a form of penal punishment. We are a brutal, sadistic people. Always have been. Work to change the system, not the rhetoric that lends this system more cover.
Dayv |
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09.29.06 - 12:38 pm | #
General, sir, my extensive recon shows that a Frenchman named John Protevi (what the hell kind of name is that?) just sent the following letter to his local newspaper, the Baton Rouge Advocate:
"I'm not writing today to protest the recent Congressional bills allowing President Bush the power to "interpret" the Geneva Convention's bans on torture.
Let others describe what legalizing "waterboarding," "long time standing," "cold room," "stress positions," and other practices means in terms of our self-understanding as a people and our moral standing in the community of nations. Let others explain how this means that the government will now openly treat people in the 21st century the way slave owners treated their slaves in the 19th century. Let others explain how this bill fits with the decent respect to the opinions of mankind we once prided ourselves on possessing. Let others explain what use a free press is when it passes on without comment, let alone protest, the Administration's use of Orwellian phrases like "interrogation techniques." Let others explain how we could have defeated the Nazis and the Soviets without such laws.
No, today I'd like to remind us that the Congress has just given away the right to habeas corpus, which is the very heart of English common law since the Magna Carta of 1215. What that means is the President can simply label anyone, anywhere, American citizen or not, an "enemy combatant," and lock them away indefinitely without the ability to have their day in court. What this means is the end of the rule of law and the beginning of the rule of men. What this means is the end of the American experiment in individual rights. What this means is that we no longer live in the country of our ancestors."
General, sir, what kind of Frenchman would write like that?
Recon guy |
09.29.06 - 12:39 pm | #
Sorry Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Paine, Mr. Adams, Mr. Monroe. Sorry we let you down.
Your fight and hard work are all for nought now. We tried, but those in power have found a better ideal than yours. It's called Tyrrany - the very thing you fought so hard to destroy.
Lighten Up Folks. Don't get all in a twist about these necessary security initiatives. They're designed to help us fight the "bad guys" and if you have done no wrong, you have nothing to worry about. There's no problem here for good Americans. A German clergyman, Martin Niemoller, explains how it will all work out for us:
"First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me."
So you see it all does work out. Relax - Don't worry - Be Happy !!
SadSoldier |
09.29.06 - 12:54 pm | #
Thank you for the proper response to what has happened.
While I always knew I cared for my country, in all my concern about where it was heading and in all my sceptical and, indeed, cynical observations on its various ills, I lost sight of just how deeply I have always loved and, at bottom, believed in America.
It hurts to remember this way.
dragonsmilk |
09.29.06 - 12:57 pm | #
SadSoldier,
Shouldn't that be "HappySoldier", soldier?
JillK. |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 12:57 pm | #
He thought he was the King of America
Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine
Now I try hard not to become hysterical
But I'm not sure if I am laughing or crying
I wish that I could push a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this hurtin' feeling disappear
Like it was common sense
It was a fine idea at the time
Now it's a brilliant mistake
Elvis Costello, "Brilliant Mistake"
Dave von Ebers |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 1:06 pm | #
We need to keep fighting. KEEP FIGHTING!
KEEP YELLING EVERYBODY! Nonstop, all the time, every day.
itwasntme |
09.29.06 - 1:08 pm | #
Not with a bang, but a whimper, eh, my general?
nancy fischer |
09.29.06 - 1:09 pm | #
Human,
I say we get Ralph Nader to run again. That'll fix everything!
JillK. |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 1:11 pm | #
dead? no no, it's just pining for the fjords.
hands down, the only ones we must MUST blame are the Bushevics, because it's just partisanship now. hold your nose if you must, but vote dem, because we MUST be united to defeat this evil cabal.
because even if an attempt is made, history tells us georgie will NOT be taken out via a 'patriot'.
but from under him.
pansypoo |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 1:11 pm | #
I forwarded your call to action yesterday to 20 people and asked them to do the same.
An admittedly small consolation is that there were some good, strong speeches yesterday that recognized the horrible import of this vote. The reps who are finally showing some willingness to speak out need as much encouragement, shaming, goading, whatever as we can give them.
Every time they say "cut and run Democrats" Democrats have to say "torture Republicans". Every time they say "they hate our freedoms" someone has to say "you trample on our freedoms". Every time they say some want to "coddle terrorists" someone has to say "you are destroying the constitution, you are dishonoring the principles Americans have shed blood for for over 200 years".
Even when networks rehashed the Clinton /Wallace interview to show how "unhinged" Clinton was, I saw people cheering Clinton on. MSM is scared to show this righteous anger, and quick to marginalize and ridicule it, but many people are hungry to see it, and they respect it. Our representatives who have any sense of conscience and duty have to risk being called "unhinged" and "terrorist-coddlers" and "cut-and-runners" and hit back hard, and again and again until the bullies on the right look like as pathetic and ineffectual as Joe McCarthy did at the end.
rbb |
09.29.06 - 1:14 pm | #
"It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow."
—Voltaire
Watch for the thunderbolt...
Publicus |
09.29.06 - 1:15 pm | #
Sir--
There has been too much discussion in the abstract. At this time it may be helpful to the WWJD crowd to see a well-researched video depicting exactly the kinds of S/M activities which will be allowed under the new GOP-written legislation. Perhaps there is a Syrian prison system instructional video already in existence that could be aired to help explain who and what we are now.
buma |
09.29.06 - 1:17 pm | #
Hi everyone. I know you are all upset by this but I have a practical question. As long as you people are passing laws to retroactively legalize torture, you know, stuff like waterboarding, is there any possibility you can make it retroactive back to, oh say, 1969? If I was effectively pardoned in such a way Satan said that while I could never leave he would let me have one pack of cigarettes every 1500 years and that would be nice. Thank you for any assistance you can provide me.
Your comrade,
Saloth Sar
Saloth Sar |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 1:19 pm | #
How soon can this piece of crap legislation be brought before the Supremes?
dancinfool |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 1:20 pm | #
The Canadians are going to have to build a wall along the border.
Dotty Gale |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 1:20 pm | #
"Obi-wan never told you what happened to your country did he?"
We suspended Habeus corpus before (under another Republican, ironically enough) so I think reports of our death are vastly overrated.
The answer is to vote the bastards out. Hold your nose and vote Democrat. They may be bastards, but they're our bastards.
Francine Fishpaw |
09.29.06 - 1:23 pm | #
At long last, the reality is that they do, in fact, have no decency.
Sir.
Monoglot |
09.29.06 - 1:23 pm | #
Dammit!
I knew I should have gotten into bondage...this would've been awesome.
Dead? Naw!! Just MORE so! Just MORE America! Bigger and Better!!!! Now we're Amerika EXTREME!!!! You know. Twice the police power, and none of that due process junk weighing ya down!!!! WOOOHOoOoOOOOOoOoO
General Sir,
Yes we have suspended habeas corpus before during, a time of war I believe. This is a bit different no? The page is brutal but true and it is a sad day because this is the deep breath before we drop onto the steep slope to who knows what. Maybe we are all now enemy combatants?
DrKLD |
09.29.06 - 1:38 pm | #
Sen. Carper of Delaware: Go to Hell. Soon.
David |
09.29.06 - 1:41 pm | #
A memory, and by God a prophecy, from Langston Hughes, despite it all:
O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!
AmericaWillBe |
09.29.06 - 1:41 pm | #
RIP, Old girl. At the end, we hardly knew you. You were a total shadow of your formerly idealistic energetic self. Bipolar disease is a bitch, girl. And you didn't wear it well at the end. I wish you'd stayed on your meds.
Sorry to see you go.
I'll report to prison in the morning.
miss_kitty |
09.29.06 - 1:43 pm | #
Ben Franklin's words still ring true today. I am worried about whether the SCOTUS would actually follow the law instead of partisan hackery. I really can't see it.
This is squarely on the WH and its GOP allies, because none of this would have happened if they were patriots and faithful to the oaths they swore on Bibles to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. I'm sure God will be amused about that when the time comes for them.
It's the military oath as well, and we may (eventually) see them voting with their feet.
rugger9 |
09.29.06 - 1:44 pm | #
Don't give up now, people. It aint over until the goons drag you off, screaming and kicking, in the middle of the night and your neighbors pretend to be asleep.
Marc |
09.29.06 - 1:46 pm | #
This is Rove's October surprise? To convince repugs that their re-election hinges on dismantling the constitution, international treaties and human dignity? To scare weak-kneed Democrats that they better fall in line or their own political future is over, regardless of whether their vote causes great hardship to our citizens who fight our wars? I fear the next time I meet someone who supports this nonsense because I am sure to do and say things that will land me in jail. Indefinitely? As a terrorist? With no due process? It does not matter since the person who supports this is the "torturer next door" and deserves hell.
jkb |
09.29.06 - 1:51 pm | #
I'm not done until I have a fucking hood on my head in a secret prison. To hell with these traitor scum in office, we're taking our country back one vote at a time.
Five of Diamonds |
09.29.06 - 1:53 pm | #
Hey, it was a fun ride! I don't have any children so I won't feel too bad about leaving the coming hellhole. I'll just keep putting my little soldiers in masonry jars as per the General. They'll be hidden away until they can once again breath the air of true freedom.
Seanly |
09.29.06 - 1:57 pm | #
Sir,
This is the type of selfesh ideal that allows our dear leader his saving grace. He knows the Dems will take power and this is his insurance policy. He truely didn't mean to trample the Constitution, this time, it just rather worked itself out in a hetro manly sort of way.
smuckelton heroworship |
09.29.06 - 1:58 pm | #
Time to fight back the only way you can in this country anymore--sue the motherfuckers. Current and ex-servicemembers, intelligence officers, State officials, pissed-off ordinarly people. This must be argued before the Supreme Court. Then we will find out whether or not America is truly dead. If the Supremes put the kibosh on this deal it will be the death blow to Georgie Boy's Good Time Torture Government. I'm just not sure a Scalito Court will see its responsibility to the US and to history.
comsympinko |
09.29.06 - 2:00 pm | #
What have they done to our wonderful country?
Shirley Reid |
09.29.06 - 2:02 pm | #
Over my dead body.
Six of them for one of us.
I'm just sayin...
have skunk |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 2:02 pm | #
But anyway. It's bad law and will be struck down by the supreme court.
Then the Booshites will be tried for war crimes.
have skunk |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 2:04 pm | #
Let's build America 2.0!
Ev |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 2:04 pm | #
Now if you could all line up for the implantation proceedure...
Troglaman |
09.29.06 - 2:11 pm | #
Sic Transit Glorai Mundi
Rafael |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 2:11 pm | #
I'm shocked that she went so fast. I knew she'd been sick, but I had no idea it was so serious.
shargash |
09.29.06 - 2:11 pm | #
Just say No to torture!
Vote the Democratic Ticket!
Just say No to domestic political torture!
Vote the Democratic Ticket!
Just say NO to Political Terrorism!
Vote the Democratic Ticket!
Send the National Guard home: let them guard us, not Halliburton's $500 billion project!
Jonathan Swiftboat |
09.29.06 - 2:14 pm | #
General, Sir
Reporting for duty, even though it involves excrutiating pain to type - still can't hold a pen either but thought I should de-lurk for this post.
My opinion is not important here, as you know I'm not American, however, as someone who has ties to the U.S. (relatives of the Jr WhattheHs', neighbour's children working and taking out citizenship in the U.S., friends in the U.S. etc) I do have a great interest in your country.
Your country has survived and surmounted so many setbacks to democracy in the past: Benedict Arnold (who is a hero in UK history), you survived the infamous Salem witch trials, situations too numerous to mention during the early years, survived the masters of industry support of the Nazi regime, survived the terrible McCarthy communist witch hunts, survived the Bay of Pigs, the Cold War, the Nixon years, Vietnam, the Contra years (aka Reagan/North conspiracies) - I refuse to include the Lewinsky issue as that was a cooked up, irrational campaign to get at someone who engaged in consensual sexual relations which did not impact the security of your nation (Goodness knows, Ike did the same, as did FDR and so many others). Our War PM talked to his dead mother so we have our own issues! The difference is that up until now, we have never held our PM accountable to any issues outside of his/her ability to manage the governance of the country, which includes the use of tax dollars. Unfortunately, yours is a country that is insulated, and until lately has not taken the time to look outside itself and determine what other countries think of it. You have a large segment of the population who believe that religion should be part and parcel of the state, who remain uninformed about the running of a country in this global world, and you have a huge number of people who seem to want power at any cost, who cater to whatever interest that will give them power.
On the very Positive side, yours is a country of survivors and educated people, which I have learned from frequenting your site and a few others. Yours is a country full of principled people who have and will fight to protect those principles.
Yes, this latest attack from the Administration is a body blow, but I have faith that the Americans I know will not stand down. They will fight to reclaim their status as the most free nation in the world. They will fight to save their constitution against the cowardly, power hungry people who seek to enslave the American public to their own ends. They will fight smart and they will prevail. It may not happen this year, or in the next few years, but it will happen, because that's who you are. I have faith in you and all the wonderful Americans who know that this is wrong. You will PREVAIL.
Over and out, Sir.
WhattheH |
09.29.06 - 2:15 pm | #
I don't know what to say. Thank you all for sharing this struggle. I hope we win, but I'm not hopeful. I will vote for Democrats in November, but that will be the last time I vote for them if they win and impeachment proceedings and war crimes trials do not follow. If they lose...well, let's just say all bets are off. Although I am 51 years old and disabled, I look forward to a new career in civil disobedience, as soon as I find a good home for my cats.
There are many, many new names on this thread that I don't recognize.
BUT I hear some veterans mewling and I see some veterans hiding under the bed.
WTF did you join the Squadristi in the first place???? To be cool? The snazzy black shirts? For the orgiastic pilgrimages to Piazzale Loreto in Milan, where Mussolini and his hootchie, Clara Petacci, were shot and hanged ??? If these are the reasons then it's no wonder you piss and moan and rend your duds. You were never meant to be facist thugs in the first place! You arriviste bully boys aren't fit to take bullets in the face from Dear Cheney. You'll see. There will be many many who will take bullets in the face.
We, la Camicie nere, are reformers, our methods may become harsher as Neoconic power grows, and we will use violence, intimidation, and murder against Freedom's opponents. One of the effective techniques of the Squadristi is force-feeding castor oil to freedom haters. Will that keep the Geneva Conventioneers off our back?. Castor Oil is good for you, Morons!!!!
A state that aims to control all aspects of people's lives, from schooling to art, from religion to holiday-making is the totalitarian state for me. Extreme nationalism warms my cockle, for I know our greatness, our exceptionalism. Dear Leader, Dear Leader, tell us more about how good we are! And how bad 1.2 billion other people are! USA! USA!
In 1935 Sinclair Lewis wrote his cunning novel, 'It Can't Happen Here', about a racist, anti-Semitic, flag-waving, army-backed demagogue who wins the 1936 presidential election and proceeds to establish an Americanized version of Nazi Germany. The title, It Can’t Happen Here, was totally ripped off by that big hairy hippie, Frank Zappa. Is that what you all want, to have our exceptionalism treated as burlesque?
So, if you can't do the crimes against humanity then you can't do the time in our exceptional ranks.
"Me ne frego!". (I don't give fuck!) real motto of the Squadristi
From The Garden of the Finzi-Continis,
stinkeye |
09.29.06 - 2:24 pm | #
We have 40 days until the election. 40 days of opportunities to end single-party rule and reintroduce accountibility.
What are you going to do during that time?
JillK. |
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09.29.06 - 2:28 pm | #
Eh. I'm not ready to give up that easy, General-Suh!
As a last resort, I am flying the flag of distress in the hopes that someone will come and save us from our tyrannical overlord.
Phillybits |
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09.29.06 - 2:34 pm | #
We have just given the worst president in our nations history the powers previously reserved for the worlds worst dictators. I've been numb since I finished swearing at my TV yesterday. I never really believed we'd kill off the Republic. At least it only applies to terrorists and people who give them aid. I'm now paranoid enough that I think even the lurkers at blogs like this are on a watch list somewhere. Now we know what Lieberman meant when he said we criticize the President at our peril.
Sgt Dan |
09.29.06 - 2:35 pm | #
Time for another Revolution.
Whatever that might be.
We need to save what was for all Americans and what was declared inalienable to all people on this planet. We need to hold these truths again...
g. |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 2:37 pm | #
I hear Canada is nice this time of year...all year in fact...
segmentation fault |
09.29.06 - 2:38 pm | #
There is hope! Sean Hannity has just been appointed official spokesmodel by GM for their failing enterprise.
purvis ames |
09.29.06 - 2:39 pm | #
Come to Canada and visit your rights.
Scarlet P. |
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09.29.06 - 2:42 pm | #
Tell me, everyone.
What does a death to a nation look like? Does it start with our neighbors disappearing? Does it start with the press being jailed for reporting it? What next will they hide from us in the name of fighting terrorism? What next will they null and void? The constitution itself?
November? Heh.....
The Rightards still have Diebold.
g. |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 2:53 pm | #
I always thought education was the answer. I have tried giving away subscriptions to "The Nation", giving away copies of Zinn's book, and people will not read. "Addicted to War" is the easiest book to read that I have found, and probably an 8th or 9th grader could read it. It has pictures. I can honestly say that I have not educated anyone. What is probably needed is an historical comic book that an asshole can understand.
realtime |
09.29.06 - 2:53 pm | #
As far as the eye of god could see,
Darkness covered everything;
Blacker than a hundred midnights,
Down in a cypress swamp.
(from "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson
dideau |
09.29.06 - 2:54 pm | #
40 days to the election! Keep fighting!
JillK. |
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09.29.06 - 2:56 pm | #
All joking aside, this bill makes me fearful for my own safety. You see, as an editor, I published a book about Jihad from the perspective of an American Jihadi. He hadn't taken up arms against his country, but he spoke in a language we can understand, and after 9/11 it was important, in my view, to understand that viewpoint, however abhorrent I and others may find it to be.
This bill makes it legal to arrest anyone at any time and treat them in any way, indefinitely, and in complete secrecy, with no accountability. Let me be clear: it will allow Bush administration thugs to "disappear" people not unlike a tinpot banana republic dictator. And torture them. Ever heard of "the submarine?" Your anus convulses just before you drown. It's a term Chilean torturers used to describe someone who was trying to get air any way they could as they waterboarded them. Dissenters? Troublemakers? Seekers of truth? People who read this blog? You're all marked. The current rhetoric is to cast Democrats as facilitators of Islamic terrorism who are "on the other side." Don't think they won't exercise their prerogatives, starting at the top.
They say that the first casualty of war is truth, but that the second casualty is the political opposition. Given my participation as a dissenter, a troublemaker, a seeker of truth, I would not be surprised if I should also be tagged as a facilitator of terrorism, though it could not be further from the truth. But what does that matter now?
Waiting for the black bag . . . keep up the good fight.
Jay |
09.29.06 - 2:59 pm | #
jkb,
Rove hasn't even gotten started! That's why we need to stop mewling and start digging in.
40 days until the election. 40 days to end single-party rule.
Yes, we are now all essentially living in an internment camp. Those of us who toe the line in silence and cough up our money, labor and obedience will be assigned to Tier A - this means we are allowed to move about the country for a few more months.
One slight hint of personal dignity, one muttered objection, one eyebrow raised a millimeter when Der Fuhrer speaks and we go to Tier B. And of course, will dissapear along with the other 100 million 'Enemy Combatants' formerly masquerading as citizens.
radhika |
09.29.06 - 3:01 pm | #
g.
All of the above. Fight anyway.
JillK. |
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09.29.06 - 3:02 pm | #
Jillk - Keep fronting for them Dems. Maybe they'll let you clean their boots. You can peal off what's left of the Constitution on the soles you lick.
If Gore had an ounce of manhood he would of protested the election.
It's time to pull your Head out of your Patriotic Bowels and Breathe the Fresh Air of Reality.
You been had.
Any other plan besides vote "Democrat"?
Human |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 3:04 pm | #
Stinkeye, not the castor oil, PLEASE, I beg you! I've been absent for awhile because of an unfortunate accident involving two ribs and three bones in the right arm, not because of a choice! Also, I can't join the squandrista right away as I can't get across the border without a passport!
Jill_K, although I still owe you a big bago cash and have been lying low to avoid repo action, I agree with you 100%. Only the country's population can make the country better. As noted in my previous comment, I have no doubt that you, MzNicky, Stinkeye, John, WCFTM, Sgt Marks-a-lot, Partz, Klink, Rev Gloryhole, Democommie, Batman, Frank Grimes, MJS, Actor212, blogenfreude , chicagodyke, SGT Dave and so many others will fight and that is why I'm so positive that all will come about. It won't be the same U.S.A., but a better, improved country because of the General, his troops and all the other wonderful Americans who see beyond the blinkers. You will PREVAIL. Just no castor oil, please!
WhattheH |
09.29.06 - 3:04 pm | #
More lyrics that fit the mood of the day:
When they kick in your front door
How ya gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun ...
The Clash, "The Guns of Brixton," from London Calling (1979)
Dave von Ebers |
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09.29.06 - 3:04 pm | #
I left a humorous comment on the previous post for this issue. Clearly, it didn't take.
The doomsaying and bathos makes Bush, Cheney, Rove, etc. very happy. Everybody who goes into the fetal position is another activist who won't be fighting them in the next 5 or 6 weeks. Keep the faith, because that's the only way we get a Congress that will stick it to these bastards.
ExHack |
09.29.06 - 3:07 pm | #
Thanks for this site. I've written all 12 apostate Democrats, and have urged my podcast listeners to do the same. With greatest respect to the General, I have put a screencap of your dark screen on my site, posted the letter text I sent, and the addresses of the Senators for people to write. I have also directed them to this site to pay their respects. General, please contact me if you object to the screencap or the traffic I've directed here.
Thank you for all registering for the Deluxe Caribbean Vacation in Beautiful Guatanamo!
Remember, Italy and Germany recovered from their infections. We will also.
Peter vE |
09.29.06 - 3:10 pm | #
Any other plan besides vote "Democrat"?
Human | Homepage | 09.29.06 - 3:04 pm | #
Human, I've read through the comments and see you challenging in several instances, but have not seen your plan. What is it? Quite honestly, I don't know what you are after. WHAT IS YOUR PLAN? Give details, or stop criticizing people who actually have one. Who would you suggest the folks should vote for - a Bush loyal Republican?
WhattheH |
09.29.06 - 3:12 pm | #
Glad you have paid attention to this, to many it is business as usual. A democracy died yesterday.
rick |
09.29.06 - 3:14 pm | #
What was the street number on Pennsylvania Ave to send my video tape in time for Halloween?
Continued affection,
Osama
P.S.: Say hello my butt boy Dick. You two stay the course.
Osama |
09.29.06 - 3:17 pm | #
It does little good for the people to complain when our representatives lack the guts to do their job. Vote the bastards out in November.
Xandr |
09.29.06 - 3:17 pm | #
Does this being H.R. 6166 make Bush the antichrist? Hmmmm, counter plan to aim at the fundies...
Mena |
09.29.06 - 3:17 pm | #
Does this being H.R. 6166 make Bush the antichrist? Hmmmm, counter plan to aim at the fundies...
Mena |
09.29.06 - 3:17 pm | #
The more I think about it I am just appalled at my own stupidity at the time. We forgot to make it fucking legal!! That would have solved everything. Duh.....
Saloth Sar
Saloth Sar |
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09.29.06 - 3:19 pm | #
Hey, it was a good run, and h/t to W, "Thanks for the memories."
Bill |
09.29.06 - 3:22 pm | #
General Sir,
Now that we have completely subdued the brown people can rename New Orleans to Macacaville?
I remember the United States of America. It was a proud country that stood for freedom (except for some exceptions).
Rest in Peace, Old Glory, Rest in Peace.
rich |
09.29.06 - 3:27 pm | #
They don't own all three branches of government yet. There's still that french-like Judicial branch that thinks they still have some control. I'm beginning to have new-found respect for the lawyer sub-species.
DC Madman |
09.29.06 - 3:29 pm | #
This was mentioned way earlier in the posts but your average american had no idea what has been going on for almost the last 3 weeks. I brought this whole "detainee" bill to my coworkers and girlfriend's attention yesterday and none,NONE of them had a clue what I was talking about. This whole travesty was protrayed in the media as just another squabble between the two parties.
Sorry to see you go, U.S. of A, we hardly knew ya.
Sherman |
09.29.06 - 3:31 pm | #
Perhaps they SHOULD just go ahead and abolish the filibuster- for all the good it is worth. What could be more worthy of its use than yesterday's vote?
But the greater catastrophe will be if the Dems fumble using this issue to call out the torture loving, lockstepping, money before country, Republicans.
The country is still on life supports- lurching on- the walking dead. But one thing that can certainly be pronounced dead on the table is... "Moderate Republican".
WeCanFixThisMess |
09.29.06 - 3:33 pm | #
Guillotine Stock is up 3000%
Fade |
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09.29.06 - 3:34 pm | #
hey "born to lose"...i'm sure that's what they said in Russia, comrade! fuck bush and his cronies...they're taking this country staight down the toilet...not ONE THING is better since they took over..not our security, not our economy, not our standing in the world, NOT ONE THING! ( I don't give a shit about saddam...he never was a threat, even to his own nieghbors). This is not the country I was born in, proudly served for, or want my kids and grandkids to grow up in! Right-wingnut, chickenhawk, conservatives can eat shit and die! Our country will be so much better off when they do!
depressed in u.s. |
09.29.06 - 3:36 pm | #
WhattheH - Voting Democrat is not a plan. What's yours? You first. I asked 1st. But maybe you should read this- A TWO-HEADED MONSTER before spouting the same old same old.
ps - Im writing up a plan to seperate the wheat from the chaff. You probably won't like it though. It has to do with direct action. I'll be posting it on my wee blog soon.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...
People don't talk that way any more.
NAL |
09.29.06 - 3:41 pm | #
"Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" -- Bluto
Let's all take a good piss on the grave of these United States, then get to work on raising something as good if not better from the ashes of our democracy.
It's better to die on your feet, then live on your knees. -- Zapata.
MB |
09.29.06 - 3:41 pm | #
All those who voted for this have given Josef Mengele a nice pat on the back. George Bush has awarded Doctor Mengele a postumous medal of freedom.
Retired Catholic |
09.29.06 - 3:48 pm | #
"When in the course of human events...."
Time for "monkey wrenches", creativity, opposition and resistance..
susan |
09.29.06 - 3:48 pm | #
On this island outside the law
The hooded head the bed of straw
Blind lady hear my plea
Do you know where to look for me?
Tell Fatima not to wait
I'm behind the Golden Gate
Tired in love and led astray
100 years in Guantanamo Bay
Oh, brothers look what he's done
Mamma's favorite son
He's just tryin to have his fun
A schoolboy with a gun
It is apparent french tactics have failed us...I humbly offer my Irish services to my country and am ready for your leadership good General.
Godlessfriend |
09.29.06 - 3:54 pm | #
All good things must come to an end, after all. Death, or entropy, comes with a whimper rather than a scream. Sad.
Richard 23 |
09.29.06 - 3:54 pm | #
General,
As bad as you feel today, will pale in comparison to how you'll feel on Nov. 8, when you awake to find that not only did the Republicans retain both houses of congress, but actually gained seats. I have no idea how they'll accomplish this, but it will happen.
Or, how you'll feel on some future date between now and 2008, when that same Republican majority repeals the 22'nd amendment. It'll be repealed in such a way, the George W. Bush will be allowed to run, but Bill Clinton will not.
Or, the day after the 2008 general election, when you awake to find that George W. Bush is still your President.
Have we become the United Snakes of America?
Mr. Terwilliger |
09.29.06 - 3:59 pm | #
What the F??
Are the Repubtards in congress being threatened or blackmailed??
They're probably just the dumbest dumb people ever.
Well let's hope we can actually take back congress and reverse some of the insanity.
ALSO!
Senator Boxer sent a message to the Bradblog asking people to call there reps, this is regarding the emergency paper ballot legislation.
Neilio |
09.29.06 - 4:00 pm | #
I guess Osama won after all. The principle of judo is to use your opponents fear against them.
To be honest I think the U.S.A. was R.I.P. a long time ago; This country is in denial about its culpability for the genocides in Indonesia, Guatemala, and elsewhere.
edq |
09.29.06 - 4:05 pm | #
The terrorists have won.
MattYoung |
09.29.06 - 4:05 pm | #
America is no longer a Christian nation.
The Geneva Conventions were primarily the effort of the United States and western democracies, telling the world that we would not sink to the same level of our enemies.
We would keep to the moral highground even though our enemies might take the moral low road, torturing their detainees, hiding their torture of detainees.
George W. Bush, and his Republican enablers, now want American citizens to stand behind the Bush administration's torture of detainees and hiding of their torture of detainees.
Bush has sunk us to the same, immoral level of our enemies, from the heights of our supposedly Christian nation's moral highground.
America is no longer a Christian nation.
America...Rest in Peace...has been carved by the Bush administration onto our democracy's tombstone.
:The Oracle |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 4:05 pm | #
... with liberty and justice for most of us ... not you you freak!
somethingsrotten |
09.29.06 - 4:09 pm | #
General,
I have been educated, entertained, and amazed at your writing for over two years now. You are the Stephen Colbert of the Net. I MUST read your site every day. It keeps me going. You have no idea what this little piece of snark and satire has done for me. It illustrates the sickness of spirit that infests the neocons, it illustrates their poor grip on reality, and it illuminates the true spirit of human kindness and even Godliness by showing their heathen behavior in contrast to what all of the Earths prophets have said. I say this with tears in my eyes, sir. Please don't stop. Even one of us giving up can dishearten the rest. We are a unit that needs to work together, that needs every voice with its own particular emphasis and view. Please don't leave me alone in this dark. Please don't leave your men and not men. I love you, and what you do on here, and we need your voice beside Markos and Avarosis.
As for the rest of you, what do you think about the opinion that this is something that Jesus, Mohammed, God, and Moses would not tolerate? The Goddess is crying in the Summerlands. Not even the still evolving state of nature tortures, it lets the weak die rather than linger on in agony. This is a holy war now.
nyarl21 |
09.29.06 - 4:11 pm | #
Get up and fight. I can smell the November air, and I know that the votes we need are not far behind. Take this righteous indignation to the polls like a shinning weapon and fight the barbarians raping the nation. I don't want to hear, "Oh, its all over. America the beautiful, America the dead." If you sit there, yes, its dead. Because we let it die. But I am going to fight. Every blow I strike from now on will be against the dominionists, the conservatives who worry the corpse of our principles like dogs, the liars and the fear-mongers. Get behind your faith. Get behind your God or Goddess. Get behind your natural truth. Get behind some armor and for Americas sake swing your sword arms.
nyarl21 |
09.29.06 - 4:18 pm | #
Don't you dare surrender, General, sir, you magnificent bastard, for I will not follow.
I cried last night. It's sad others didn't realize when Bush said it would be easier being a dictator and when Rove said he was a destroyer of Constitutions, there was nothing funny about it. My dem. senator is Salazar. What a spineless piece of shit! Allard had more integrity when he was my vet in Loveland.
mlp |
09.29.06 - 4:21 pm | #
I is sad as an Quebecer to see America the champion of freedom decide to do away with freedom. Like the last 200 years where just a phase. Now America as joined the rank of the Torture Contry.
Gotwolfy |
09.29.06 - 4:22 pm | #
It was a sweet run while it lasted!
pp |
09.29.06 - 4:23 pm | #
...and I for one welcome our new torturing overlords!
Looks like "Sympathy for the Devil" needs a new verse.
Paul |
09.29.06 - 4:23 pm | #
We have only begun the fight Sir. We are armed and ready to flock to your leadership if only you don't give up. Seriously alot of the safeguards in the Bill of Rights were placed there to allow a second revolution if it proved necessary. Don't rule it out.
lallen |
09.29.06 - 4:24 pm | #
Ah, deja vu all over again.
We in SAfrica have a new democracy based on principles similar to yours but inclusive of all those Amendment fixers.It is a lovely document and we treasure it.But democracy is not in words but in the action of its people.
I'm sorry that you allowed a gang of greedy kleptocrats to take over and kill off your founding principles, as well as totally destroying the USA's standing in the world at large.
What they are doing follows a wellworn path.Fascism and Nazism have both been quoted as predecessors, but I know a more recent one - apartheid.It took us 40 years to get rid of those oppressors; I hope you will have better luck.
suezboo |
09.29.06 - 4:25 pm | #
Must have gotten raptured
sinner |
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09.29.06 - 4:25 pm | #
"The Geneva Conventions were primarily the effort of the United States and western democracies, telling the world that we would not sink to the same level of our enemies."
Comment by The Oracle.
Damn straight, Oracle. In fact, the Geneva Conventions have their roots in the Lieber Code enacted by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. By the end of the 19th Century, the rest of the world was following our lead, and it continued to do so ... until yesterday.
Dave von Ebers |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 4:28 pm | #
rest in peace America. It's been good to know you.
Joeyess |
09.29.06 - 4:28 pm | #
"America is no longer a Christian nation."
I wouldn't trouble yourself over that too much, after all Today's Christians don't even bother to attempt to study Christ's teachings anyway.
Fade |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 4:30 pm | #
The secrets eternal neither you know nor I
And answers to the riddle neither you know nor I
Behind the veil there is much talk about us, why
When the veil falls, neither you remain nor I.
I know we Canadians and you Americans didn't always get along, but still - sorry about that eh?
LaoK |
09.29.06 - 4:30 pm | #
Ah, I'll always cherish the good times, the fun, the cameraderie, and the mutual respect we once had. And I'll miss you, pal. Remember the time my father went to Europe on your money? Of course, he got shot at while he was over there, and had to shoot back and visit concentration camps and such, but he was proud of what he did and you even gave him two bronze stars when he came back.
I remember the bad times, too, like when Martin was killed, and then Bobby, and then Nixon was elected two times and that whole Viet Nam thing. But you never lost your sense of yourself through it all, and you even grew stronger in many ways. The way you rallied in bad times was an inspiration to the world. And when Nixon resigned, you proved that it could work and that there was an essential rightness to what you had established. You were something all right. You were the best. Everybody knew it and everybody either tried to be like you or was afraid to tick you off.
I always thought you'd go on forever, outlive me, and be a friend to my family that lived on after me. Now, well, all I can say is that you were great while you lasted and I will always cherish you in my heart.
So long, old friend. Thanks for all the good memories.
DBK |
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09.29.06 - 4:31 pm | #
Ah, I'll always cherish the good times, the fun, the cameraderie, and the mutual respect we once had. And I'll miss you, pal. Remember the time my father went to Europe on your money? Of course, he got shot at while he was over there, and had to shoot back and visit concentration camps and such, but he was proud of what he did and you even gave him two bronze stars when he came back.
I remember the bad times, too, like when Martin was killed, and then Bobby, and then Nixon was elected two times and that whole Viet Nam thing. But you never lost your sense of yourself through it all, and you even grew stronger in many ways. The way you rallied in bad times was an inspiration to the world. And when Nixon resigned, you proved that it could work and that there was an essential rightness to what you had established. You were something all right. You were the best. Everybody knew it and everybody either tried to be like you or was afraid to tick you off.
I always thought you'd go on forever, outlive me, and be a friend to my family that lived on after me. Now, well, all I can say is that you were great while you lasted and I will always cherish you in my heart.
So long, old friend. Thanks for all the good memories.
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09.29.06 - 4:31 pm | #
Dems must take back the House to start the investigations rolling. The corruption we see now is just the tip of the iceberg.
Makes me want to move to Canada (where my wife is from, so I know what it is like up there. Nice!)
enkidu |
09.29.06 - 4:37 pm | #
That does it. I am gonna enlist in MoveOn.org before I get drafted for a war with Iran.
If we boot the repugnant majority from the congress, can we just undo a recently enacted law? Will we make enough gains to override a veto? [If we do, then impeachment is also worth considering]
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09.29.06 - 4:38 pm | #
Why bother spending the time mourning the death of Amerika when there's a big sale on anti-depressents at Wal Mart? You'll appreciate those pills when they're 'legally' waterboarding one end of you whist 'legally' raping the other.
Justin |
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09.29.06 - 4:43 pm | #
Bears repeating:
"This is how liberty dies - to thunderous applause."
Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave...
O'er the land of the - ah, it's just a goddamn piece of fabric, anyway. Nothing to see here, move along.
so sad to have been an American in those days. As a stringer for the Fox/ACLU Network since 2012, I get to cover events out in the boonies. Last week, for example, I reported on the annual 'Piss on W's Grave' parade in Litchfield county. I wish one of the wire services had picked it up. I could use the creds. Of course, the St. Ann's Parochial School's choir singing the old Dixie Chicks standard, 'Cry me a yellow river' choked me up, as it always does.
VJB |
09.29.06 - 4:46 pm | #
What's with the melodrama?
Geroge Bush |
09.29.06 - 4:49 pm | #
And Sean Hannity is chosen by General Motors as a "Great American" . . .
What's the Arabic for "mission accomplished"?
Squeaky McCrinkle |
09.29.06 - 5:03 pm | #
Dude, GET BACK ON THE BLOG.
Your country needs you.
have skunk |
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09.29.06 - 5:04 pm | #
Oh well, democracy and the rule of law made a pretty good go of it for a while.
Tonight I plan to raise one patriotic glass after another in memory of our republic.
Andy |
09.29.06 - 5:05 pm | #
Who cares about Habeas Corpus?
Lets just nuke Iran, then Jesus will come to take all 144,000 of us true believers, (sorry, no French please)
Iowa man |
09.29.06 - 5:11 pm | #
Well, the handwriting was on the wall when Bush/Cheney got "re"-elected. Apparently nobody gave a shit (Thanksalot, "Democrats"...great job as "opposition party"!)
All right all you terrorists, you can go home now...game over...you won...I'm heading for Canada right now (I hope I don't get trampled to death). This day will prove as crushing for Amerika as the day Hindenburg died was for Germany. Cry havoc!
J.Hill |
09.29.06 - 5:12 pm | #
What does it take to be named an enemy combatant? Calling George Bush a yellow bellied scum sucking pansy alcoholic coke snorting dumb ass? Or just donating to the local mosque? In Bushworld, both will probably do the trick.
mtnbkrid |
09.29.06 - 5:13 pm | #
"As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it, "All men are created equal, except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, "All men are created equal except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some other country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
-Abraham Lincoln.
Its the hypocrisy of reading the UN Declaration of Human Rights one week, and passing this abomination of a "law" the next that makes the death of my country so hard to swallow.
feckless |
09.29.06 - 5:14 pm | #
Fear not - The United States of America lives as long as it lives inside all of us who decry this tyranny!
Sic semper tyrannis!
Matt in Texas |
09.29.06 - 5:15 pm | #
Kind of reminds me of the good old days when it looked as if democracy would die with Richard Nixon. But then Congress and the Supreme Court stood up and did their jobs.
Congratulations to Osama and his TKO in the 1st round. I only wish old Uncle Sam could've put up a bit more of a fight and at least made it interesting.
TexasBubba |
09.29.06 - 5:21 pm | #
We must vote Democrat because it is the next best step. It is the nature of politicians to be spineless facing elections. But there is safety in numbers,if Dems run congress again maybe they will get the courage back to vote their concience. We know the repugs have no concience that is fact,they are completely motivated by their primal insecurities. If that doesn't work then maybe after many lives are lost in the next civil war a new nation will emerge with a renewed passion for the ideals of the once great nation of the United States.
artc |
09.29.06 - 5:23 pm | #
Mister_Hoover,
Naw it will be "Mitt" Romney as Pres. Remember, his real first name is Willard!
40 days to the election and I agree with Barbara Boxer - call your rep about the paper ballots bill!
JillK. |
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09.29.06 - 5:23 pm | #
what skunk said...
and on Monday I'll be teachen'm about the bill of rights (and remind them about art 1 sec 8 ) and I'm going to keep registering voters -- and we will win this thing. Really.
This is their last fucking grasp at straws -- it's ugly, it's grotesque and you knew they were going to do it.
Their demonesque hands grasp at the constitution, but the constitution will live on long after they go to their personal hell.
triozyg |
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09.29.06 - 5:23 pm | #
The American Dream has gotten a bit tougher to attain every years since Nixon bagged it, hasn't it? Your bundle of rights getting smaller and smaller while your government got bigger and bigger...
One simple request to those with the balls to shed blood soon: when executing these perverters of our Constitution, please do me the personal favor of NOT shooting them!
Blindfolds and cigarettes are for men of honor.
Please HANG this trash, like the (most) common criminals that they are.
There are a LOT of light poles on the Key Bridge that could use decoration.
SailorSam |
09.29.06 - 5:24 pm | #
highly appropriate. a dark time in these united states for sure.
rasbobbo |
09.29.06 - 5:26 pm | #
We can no longer be stopped. Thank you self absorbed baby boomers!!
Corporate Jesus |
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09.29.06 - 5:26 pm | #
General,
Dropped by to sign the visitation book.
So many people do not follow "the news." Many people don't even know what happened. It's all some goddamn car chase and TO's OD. Wonder when the news will filter down to the masses?
Terry |
09.29.06 - 5:36 pm | #
America's never been a Christian nation. Our democracy was a product of the Age or Reason.
Until we get a fresh resurgence of reason in our politicians and the majority of Americans, we'll have a country that gets fooled over and over again by lies and below-the-belt politics.
Hamasi |
09.29.06 - 5:38 pm | #
So, now we must - and to our shame -
Revise the ancient lie, and claim
Torture as the crowning glory
Of "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."
Wilfred Owen must, indeed, be stirring in his grave... as must so many others who have given their lives for this land.
Gaia sighs... |
09.29.06 - 5:40 pm | #
One option left:
California libre!
DocAmazing |
09.29.06 - 5:47 pm | #
My apologies. My closing comment should have read " Wilfred Owen must, indeed, be stirring in his grave... as must so many Americans who have given their lives for their own land."
Gaia sighs... |
09.29.06 - 5:48 pm | #
The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
...Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
...Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
...Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
...Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
...Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
...Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
...Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
...Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
...Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
...Give the world the best you have anyway.
JillK. |
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09.29.06 - 5:51 pm | #
The Second Amendment is for liberals too. Some of us do still adhere to the Jeffersonian duty.
Every time I've posted, I've seen The General's thanks and your "Who's gonna save us now?"
We're going to save us!
Just thought I'd clear that up for ya!
JillK. |
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09.29.06 - 5:53 pm | #
"you're boring the rest of us."
How about a quick song and dance number?
Don't laugh-when the Titanic went down the band played on.Any requests folks?
pinkobait |
09.29.06 - 6:00 pm | #
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
freaktown |
09.29.06 - 6:01 pm | #
I only knew you for 21 years, but you were great for the first 15 or so. God bless.
scarshapedstar |
09.29.06 - 6:07 pm | #
The clarion call has sounded, sir! I await orders. My sentiments are of all those up thread (except for the troll).
I am one pissed off american mexican/indian/whiteguy. I shall not go quietly or peacefully.
your soldier,
cheesesauce |
09.29.06 - 6:24 pm | #
I think you are right to give the terminal date as 2006. At first, I thought that no, The noble experiment that was the USA ended with the election of RR.
But no, that was when the downward spiral started. Yesterday was when it met it's death.
You've got to admit though, it was a great experiment while it lasted. We learned a lot about the value of people, versus the value of corporations, etc... Maybe someone else can take the mantle and restart the great experiment.
I just hope it is in my lifetime.
mark |
09.29.06 - 6:30 pm | #
The PROOF that there is no god was handed to us this week by the sadistic, power hungry politicians who pander to the zealous followers of this fictional being. If such an entity existed anywhere in the universes, he/she/it would never allow such an ingnoble end to the noblest experiment ever attempted by civizilation.
Jeff |
09.29.06 - 6:43 pm | #
Really important song right now. Please listen.
whig |
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09.29.06 - 6:47 pm | #
Cheesesauce,
You in the Boston area?
JillK. |
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09.29.06 - 6:48 pm | #
I understand the passing wasn't totally unexpected. She has been very ill the last six years.
K. Ron Silkwood |
09.29.06 - 6:49 pm | #
The saddest part of it all is that the majority of Americans have no freaking clue that anything has even changed.
trempy |
09.29.06 - 6:49 pm | #
General, Sir!
Fuck this shit! In a time of great evil, a lesser evil is highly desirable. Flawed and spineless though they may be, the Democrats are our only chance at the moment. We can get on with the debate about political reform after we get the fascists out of power. Bullies are, ultimately, the biggest cowards and won't know what to do when the "victim" suddenly stands his/her ground. So, stand we must, and vote Democratic if for no other reason than to stem the tide. When you're careening downhill, just stopping is a good thing. We'll retake the summit once we catch our breath.
Sir, let's tear them another asshole- you know, in addition to the one from which they speak. To save Chimpy from having to do it, I declare myself to be an "enemy combatant", an enemy of the junta in DC.
raindogzilla |
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09.29.06 - 6:51 pm | #
I'm sorry, I've skipped a lot of posts and this may have been covered, by why, again, am I voting for Democrats? What delusional imbecile believes they will do ANYTHING even if they DO take back both Houses?
I don't vote for parties that do not represent me even if they are marginally better than Satan. The best I can do is throw them a bone and vote Democrat in local elections. But I register unaffiliated as of today.
Augie |
09.29.06 - 6:52 pm | #
I'm not mourning the US yet. To unabashadly steal an idea from another blogger, I say this:
I have not yet begun to fight.
Michael |
09.29.06 - 7:03 pm | #
The Democrats are useless. But if you don't vote, instead of getting a bunch of ineffectual morons, you get a bunch of Stalinists. If you don't vote, you resign yourself, you agree to saying "fuck democracy, it's dead."
Maybe I'm just a necrophiliac. Or delusional. But I don't see sitting out as a reasonable alternative.
Voting takes ten seconds (ok, minus the time standing in line). What's the downside?
Tlachtga |
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09.29.06 - 7:11 pm | #
See, the first and hardest step is to get over the hurt, the hurt of being forcibly separated from a very important and once-nourishing idea, that the USA is this and that. It's the let down, the feeling of having -lost- something, that is the most painful.
People are apes. The abstractions of money and property rights, as we now know them, seem to have this way of concentrating on certain people. Wanna-be dictators and torturers will continue to be born onto the earth forever. We are so fragile. This is what we work with.
And only then, after passing -that- stone, you become much more free, and much more dangerous. You're free to start asking questions:
"Well then, what kind of government/economy/morality can and will end up usurping state power, just as the state usurped the church 500 years ago?"
"The USA was perfect for 200 years ago, and now has become obsolete. The greatest athelete gets old and feeble. The best horse jockey could never win at Lemans. Things change, and it's nothing to be sad about. So what abstractions/memes of authority/responsibility/economy are perfect for -today?-"
"What will be the USA of the next couple centuries? Will it be a country? A company? Some sort of club like AAA? Or rather, just the natural cumulative -output- from having changed the -conditions- having to do with currency, energy and communications?"
Great potential waits dormant in questions like these. Recall that as great as the USA has been, still most human beings never got to live here and enjoy our kind of freedom. So by putting down our attachment to the territorial state model, we make it possible to spread the core principles over much more of the earth, and that's a Good Thing. If all people are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, then that really should go for All People, and we're -kinda- hypocrites for so lamenting our -own- rare and still-exclusive situation.
Martin Luther was Catholic and George Washington was English.
So just remember that Human History is just getting started. Hammurabi's kingdom and Ancient Egypt were The Shit in their day, the final say, perfection, The ULTIMATE, and what remains now?
So don't worry. We have absolutely NO idea what is to come and never did. All we can do is focus on the positive and remember that the consequence of our actions far outlast our own lives. From there out, it's one day at a time.
Craig Meyer |
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09.29.06 - 7:15 pm | #
Dear America,
Congratulations on taking that bold step to becoming an outlaw state.
So what will you do when some of your clandestine operatives are arrested in another country trying to remove a citizen of that country against their will? Will there be spontaneous demonstrations outside that country's embassy? Or will you just sail a task force into their coastal waters: "Nice State you've got here. Be a shame if something were to ... happen ... to it."
King John is rated England's worst King. Out of that time came the law, which has stood even under monarchy, for nearly six hundred years. You held on to it for barely a third of that time.
The Republic has actually been dead for quite a while. They've been doing a Weekend At Bernie's on us.
Even now many people can't smell the decaying corpse.
alpowolf |
09.29.06 - 7:16 pm | #
Years and years of listening to conservatives state that the Constitution doesn't *grant* rights, but *guarantees* them; that the Bill of Rights merely enumerates specific rights the government cannot infringe upon; that the freedom of religion, speech, assembly, habeus corpus, double-jeopardy, trial by jury, face-your-accuser, freedom from unlawful search and siezure, yes (even though I think it has something to do within the context of a well-regulated militia) the right to keep and bear arms... are not *bestowed* by the government, but are in the Constitution to prevent the government from getting too powerful.
When Frist said on the Senate floor that "...we can't be giving 'these people' ordinary rights...," I heard a quantum shift of so-called "conservatism." Now the Fuhrer decides who is worthy of "rights."
Frankly, it worries me that there's a Machiavelian streak in me that looks forward to the downfall of the current Republican junta, and the prospect of packing Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and Randall Terry and their steeple-sheeple up in cattle cars and shipping them off to "Jesus Camps" in South Dakota... but it wouldn't be America anymore. And what George WMD Bush is doing to the Constitution these days assures it.
If they don't come after me first.
monkeyhawk |
09.29.06 - 7:17 pm | #
Wow. I feel so much safer knowing the US Senate just shit all over the Constitution.
As for my own "Senator", Debbie Stabenow.....i'm pretty sure their is a cozy corner in hell awaiting her
Irish |
09.29.06 - 7:20 pm | #
All Hail His Holiness Da Surpreme
King and Ruler Of All The Universe
and than sum, Turd Blossom da Furst.
Liz |
09.29.06 - 7:24 pm | #
Sir,
I started mourning back in December of 2000.
Jackie_O |
09.29.06 - 7:27 pm | #
The Noble Experiment was great while it lasted. Ultimately it fell not to a foreign invader but to fear, greed and the unbridled lust for power. The weapons were not guns or bombs but televisions and direct mail.
Requiescat in Pace American. You did better than anyone expected.
A. Nuran |
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09.29.06 - 7:28 pm | #
So...
I just had a curious weird thot. Clearly, at some point anyway, most of us who are somewhere to the left of the neocon lunatic frontier are going to want to give somebody else a try -- this usually happens when we come to realize that the folks who got voted in because they had all the right answers (and a few tricks up their sleeves) don't really know what they are doing. And so we eject the bums to give somebody else a whack at it...
So the weird thot here is the realization that America will be back, I'm thinking, but I'm trying to figure out how it might happen? The Constitution could be reinstated when the Democrats take over and they do the right thing soon after taking their solemn oaths to do the right thing...
Or could it be restored by the PNAC corporatists who started fiddling with the Constitution not 30 days after 9/11 by pulling the USA PATRIOT Act out of their shorts, dusting it off, and laying it down before Congress with a {wink, wink} "Trust us" because they now find themselves on the wrong side of this monster they have created...?
Imagine a world with the legislation passed just this week and -- Surprise!!! -- the Democrats are calling the shots now. Imagine a guy with a real job and real responsibilities telling fat-ass, dull-minded politicians and pointy headed greedy corporate executives and others who contribute little more than the next headache to our society, that "Work will make you free!"...
What goes around, comes around. Seems to me that these ruling right-wing "christian" demagogues were out in the parking lot smoking weed or drinking something nasty when the good folks were inside discussing "Do unto others"...
Speaking of Lady Liberty, I reposted an embroidery of her weeping. Seemed suitable today. here
Echidne of the snakes |
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09.29.06 - 7:34 pm | #
The light has gone out and America has descended into darkness. Our country has been taken our liberty and human rights. Our government have abdicated their responsibiliteies and give away democracy and human rights to a dictator who has his hand shoved up a mock presidents ass.I will never be able to believe in America as the defender of freedom again. Under this administration our elected servants have forfeited the right to call this country a democracy - more concerned with giving it to foreign countries than they are about spreading it at home. How far we've fallen in such a short time. I am making plans to move to Canada as soon as I can find a job. I am ashamed to be an American on this day, when the light of our great country was extinguised. I never thought I could be more depressed than when the election was stolen the first time, but I was wrong. America, where have you gone? The grand experiment is over now that the assaults upon human dignity and other laws that form the cement which used to bind us as a nation and allow the strong and the weak to live together in peace have been torn into pieces.
ASurvivorInUtah |
09.29.06 - 7:36 pm | #
It had to end sometime.
NTodd, CT's Next Snow Mexican |
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09.29.06 - 7:36 pm | #
The fight isn't over and America isn't dead. She's in shock, her vitals aren't good. But she's not dead. I intend to go down fighting. And I'm a mean, old, stringy, tough bitch.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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09.29.06 - 7:42 pm | #
what about the Canole?
focus |
09.29.06 - 7:43 pm | #
what about the Canole?
focus |
09.29.06 - 7:43 pm | #
All we are saying is give congressional oversight a chance
All we are saying is give congressional oversight a chance
C'mon
Ev'rybody's talking about Torture,
Macacas, and Ambermoff
Bruster and Jennings and Jihad and Profiteer,
And NIE NIE, bye byes.
All we are saying is give congressional oversight a chance
(sung to John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance)
invasion14 |
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09.29.06 - 7:46 pm | #
Brilliant. I think all blogs should be flying the American flag upside down. It's the international distress symbol.
Black September |
09.29.06 - 7:51 pm | #
what about the Canole?
focus
Eat the canole. Take the gun.
Black September |
09.29.06 - 7:52 pm | #
How late is Canada open?
Skane Canyon |
09.29.06 - 7:55 pm | #
I've been depressed all week. The is not our country. Give it back, you thieves! November 7-- VOTE. And spread the word. We need to take our country back. Voting = CPR, our only chance.
amy |
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09.29.06 - 7:57 pm | #
this odious bill will be declared unconstitutional and dropped like the piece of shit that it is. However I have heard that a lot of democrats have become disgusted with their representatives and have decided to vote green or not at all. Mission accomplished!
The Republican Party, "building a bridge to the Tenth Centuary"!
Gregg Leinweber |
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09.29.06 - 7:58 pm | #
How late is Canada open?
Skane Canyon
Parts of it are 24/7.
I'm sorry about your country. Is there somewhere we should send flowers?
JR, kerosene and a match |
09.29.06 - 8:02 pm | #
In the dark of the early morning, I think "This is not the country that I grew up in, served 20 years in the Air Force for, believed in." And I get damned depressed.
Then, the sun comes up, and I think "FUCK 'EM. I'M STILL HERE, I'M NOT LEAVING, AND I'M NOT GIVING UP!"
There's more of us than there is of them. Hold your heads up, and drive on!
Carl_pdx |
09.29.06 - 8:02 pm | #
Die & Lie the Bushit way. The RepubliKKKan RubberStamp did it with vischy-Dem help to finally kill-off democracy and the rule of law. Now that my protests are considered to be terrorist actions, I say F*CK YOU TO THE BUSHIT MACHINE. Thank you...
BoiseNick |
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09.29.06 - 8:02 pm | #
My past ancestors who fought against the British crown for the founding of this country down to my recent ancestors in Arlington National Cemetery who fought as career Marines in 2 World Wars (and NEVER glorified the horrors of war like the chicken hawks) are rolling in their graves and crying over the demise of our Nation.
The great experiment is over. The facists have prevailed.
True Blue |
09.29.06 - 8:09 pm | #
American democracy died more than sixty years ago with the establishment of the National Security State which rules to this day. All the Senate did was institutionalize it formally. Maybe it's better these jackals show their fangs rather than hide behind "humanistic" fascists such as, well, you know who they are.
purvis ames |
09.29.06 - 8:11 pm | #
I wonder who is being tortured right now.
Good by United States of America.
Hello Fascist States of America.
edwin |
09.29.06 - 8:16 pm | #
How about a little less fucking talk and a little walk! We've got to take to the fucking streets and show up by the millions at the gates of the White House.
If we are loud enough we can take the democracy back!
Chris |
09.29.06 - 8:17 pm | #
The saddest part of all is this:
And the VAST majority of Americans, going about their busy day, haven't the slightest inkling.
Nor do they seem to care....
Our job as "liberty" soldiers is to educate our friends and family, we need to wake people up. And don't forget the kids! This may take a few generations to correct.
nancy T |
09.29.06 - 8:18 pm | #
I would like to numbered amoung the few who understood what yeaterday was and today is.
Betty |
09.29.06 - 8:20 pm | #
Congratulations Republicans and sympathizers. You've done more to destroy your country than I ever could have done. Keep up the good work, Vote Republican.
Osama bin Laden |
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09.29.06 - 8:23 pm | #
All Repubtiles are human fucking garbage, spawned from the assholes of satanic jackals, sub-human, jesus-crazed scum. We can't rest until every one of them is soap.
Pray4:Bush-Rove Suicide Pact |
09.29.06 - 8:28 pm | #
There was a profit in the distant past, a terrorist according to the rulers of the land. Who did not give in, even in death.
theroachman |
09.29.06 - 8:35 pm | #
I just gave to the ACLU and two Democratic candidates.
I didn't know what else to do.
Steve G. |
09.29.06 - 8:41 pm | #
Damn! I knew it wasn't feeling well, but I had no idea. It seems like just six or seven years ago that it was laughing and singing and really seeming to enjoy life. Truly saddening.
nipigon1 |
09.29.06 - 8:48 pm | #
This is truly a dark day for what used to be. . . 'murica. Now all I can do is hang my head at what an absolute travesty and hypocrisy this country has become. We have met the Taliban and it is U.S.
mk1gti |
09.29.06 - 8:52 pm | #
Time for a new revolution, folks.
gmoke |
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09.29.06 - 8:53 pm | #
It was 6 years ago. Then the GDamned Supremes stepped in.
tom durkin |
09.29.06 - 8:53 pm | #
I refuse to let the Cringe and crap republicans win...
Anonymous |
09.29.06 - 9:02 pm | #
America, we will not soon forget you. You gave us hope and meaning. We will miss you.
sjk |
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09.29.06 - 9:02 pm | #
A Song on the End of the World
On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.
On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.
And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels' trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.
Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
There will be no other end of the world,
There will be no other end of the world.
maynardgkrebs |
09.29.06 - 9:05 pm | #
I appreciate you giving this the attention it is due, but I'll never forgive you if you stop blogging.
Lesley |
09.29.06 - 9:13 pm | #
US Senate scores own-goal for Al-Qaida
jrt |
09.29.06 - 9:17 pm | #
Every Senator who voted for this legislation must find himself or herself facing a petition drive to recall and replace them by Monday.
sleon |
09.29.06 - 9:21 pm | #
Everyone raise a bitter toast to the Magna Carta. The American Bar Association has a momument at Runnymeade to commerate the role of the Great Charter in US law. The Congress flushed it this week with hardly a thought.
Spotty |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 9:31 pm | #
Couldn't keep it, huh? Don't say I didn't warn you.
So President Cheney and his fool want to be tyrants.
I see some suggestions above, here are more:
-Refuse and reject fear.
-Steal some of your tax payments and donate them to the campaigns of fully-spined Dems in competitive races, this time and in every other election, until that party is purged of tyrant-enablers.
-Join your local government. Volunteer, contribute, meet others, and speak out.
-Mock the tyrants in the market, in the workplace, in church, in the street.
-Refuse them: do not enlist; do not watch their propoganda; boo when their faces appear, when their voices are heard.
-Read. Talk among yourselves, out loud.
-Find out which corporations support these tyrants, and buy nothing from them, ever.
Fuck moving to Canada.
Let's deport this administration to The Hague.
The W is for War Criminal;
the Rev Jerry Gloryhole |
09.29.06 - 9:56 pm | #
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Malone Dies |
09.29.06 - 10:12 pm | #
wir müssen die Republikan ausrotten.
r€nato |
09.29.06 - 10:16 pm | #
werd.
Max Smith |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 10:16 pm | #
when and whe
re do we march?. I have a fast car (thanks Ms. Chapman, but it really is fast, about 150). I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT AND WANT IT TO STOP.
Wil |
09.29.06 - 10:20 pm | #
anyone want to start a revolution?
Wil |
09.29.06 - 10:30 pm | #
So long USA, hello Jesus camp!
eris |
09.29.06 - 10:30 pm | #
Bullshit. This isn't over yet. Don't lay down now. The bill can (and will) be challenged in the courts, but it's going to take money. Donate what you can to the ACLU NOW:
If that doesn't work, take to the streets. Turn your broken heart into a fist. We've faced worse before and will face worse in the future. Now is not the time to quit.
CarbonDate |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 10:32 pm | #
carbon,
when, let's make it happen everywhere
Wil |
09.29.06 - 10:36 pm | #
anyone in New Mexico, contact me. I want to make a big show. wwahch@yahoo.com
Wil |
09.29.06 - 10:41 pm | #
Only the good die young.
Thomas |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 10:50 pm | #
Do I make you a little horny?
Yet Another Republican |
09.29.06 - 10:53 pm | #
General-
Of the Amendments to the Constitution that pertain to individuals, at least one remains whole and intact. The one of which I speak is the Second Amendment. You will remain my General no matter what happens.
Thanks for your leadership. I stand awaiting orders, sir.
Killer |
09.29.06 - 11:01 pm | #
We still have Poland!
Col. Klink |
09.29.06 - 11:10 pm | #
Il n'y a plus d'Amerique.
Sebastien |
09.29.06 - 11:12 pm | #
Republicans: What ya wearing?
America: tshirt and shorts
Republicans: Love to slip them off of you.
wheee haaaa |
09.29.06 - 11:13 pm | #
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1/17/1961
When people say things, it is human nature to evaluate the speaker, test whether we believe that he speaks as an authority. In 1961 this patriot, in a farewell address to the American people, warned us of the dangers that he saw. As a decorated five star general, a career soldier, he knew of what he spoke. This has been a long time coming. The sleaze and criminal nature of our leaders is real. It is up to every patriotic American to take back our nation.
Dave |
09.29.06 - 11:17 pm | #
The Bush cabal has dragged America into one of it's darkest chapters. I weep for my country's soul.
momster |
09.29.06 - 11:19 pm | #
I'm not dead yet. - Monty Python
Lady Liberty |
09.29.06 - 11:22 pm | #
My condolences, Sir. We all mourn together, across all of the miles.
And to those who see mourning as "giving up," you miss the point entirely. It is not until we take to heart what we truly have lost, that we appreciate what we had. And it is this that will grab us all by the short hairs and drive us on.
But without the blinders of simplified exhortations, my chirren, so spare me the bullshit and the loopholes.
As Auntie Roo said on my blog,
"Since they *suspended* habeas corpus with this vote that makes getting it to SCOTUS a bit of a problem."
We're more fucked than even we know.
"Such great ideas people.
Keep blogging and supporting Democrats.
All the problems will go away.
Any constructive ideas out there?" --- Anonymous
Grow the fuck up. This is as much the fault of the so-called "Democrats" as it is of Rove, Bush41, Rumsfeld and Scalia. Fuck your fealty to an antiquated system that's done nothing but allow the most evil cocksuckers on the planet to fuck our entire way of life right out of being.
Fuck your naivite. Fuck your fear. Fuck your faith.
And fuck the Democrats who voted for this shit, because if we don't make it our life's goal to UNFUCKINGLOAD those scum-sucking whores, WE ARE NO BETTER THAN THEY ARE. We are just as guilty as they are, and there will be no mercy on us.
"We have 40 days until the election. 40 days of opportunities to end single-party rule and reintroduce accountibility.
What are you going to do during that time?" --- JillK.
Just overthrow the gubmint, is all. I just need somebody to drive the getaway truck and a steady supply of painkillers until the surgery.
"Remember, Italy and Germany recovered from their infections. We will also." --- Peter vE
And how many millions of innocents were left dead in their wake? What was it again, 8, 9 million? I lose track, considering how many bodies we've left covering the face of the earth.
"Now that we have completely subdued the brown people can rename New Orleans to Macacaville?" --- Eespectfully, Mungen_Cakes
FUCK. YOU. SIDEWAYS. WITH. A. CHAINSAW.
You are about as "funny" as the corpse of a tortured prisoner.
~~~
"The fight isn't over and America isn't dead. She's in shock, her vitals aren't good. But she's not dead. I intend to go down fighting. And I'm a mean, old, stringy, tough bitch." --- Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
I like the cut of your jib, Hecate. Wanna drive?
(Continued -- Too many line breaks)
Anntichrist S. Coulter |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 11:26 pm | #
Fascism cannot be reasoned with, can't be negotiated with, it can only be confronted.
Ron |
09.29.06 - 11:28 pm | #
(Cont'd)
No pain, shame, anguish, tears, or rage expressed here is "whining" or "snivelling" or whatever perjoritive terms some have applied.
These are only the proper expressions of the most heartbreaking series of events in modern human history.
Now all we have to do is channel the rage appropriately. 'Cause if we don't, the rage will simmer down into morbid depression, and then we'll all retreat to a mountain cabin, grow a beard, and start living on Twinkies. And then we'll be useless as tits on a boar hog and these motherfuckers will have us lock, stock, and barrel.
Mourn. Rend your garments. Break all the mirrors, stop all the clocks.
Rest.
And in a day, or two, wake up.
Arm yourselves with your rage, your intelligence, and your strong backbones.
And go out there and start breaking some motherfucking heads.
And once again, in case I was unclear earlier, FUCK EVERY SINGLE SO-CALLED "DEMOCRAT" WHO VOTED FOR TORTURE AND DUMBYA'S & DICK'S FREE PASSES. Raise hell, recruit better people, and GET RID OF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE ROLL-OVER BOTTOM BITCH PUSSY MOTHERFUCKERS. WITH PREJUDICE.
Anntichrist S. Coulter |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 11:28 pm | #
Are you saying we should move to France?
Col. Vyvyan |
09.29.06 - 11:32 pm | #
Yesterday Iraq, soon Iran and then the world. Our Bush has his Gestapo to decide who will be tortured within his definition of interrogation. How lucky we all are. And how brave our Senators have been. Where will they build the gas chambers that we will need to take care of all those terrorists that Bush will be finding. Stay the course - or should that be the curse?
God has damned America! R.I.P.
Rob |
09.29.06 - 11:34 pm | #
It was a good idea. Too bad those mother fuckers had to mess it up.
thomas |
09.29.06 - 11:41 pm | #
Come on guys, get it together. I'm sure this whole democracy thing in Iraq is gonna come together real soon. We can regroup in Baghdad.
danceswithwoodchucks |
09.29.06 - 11:49 pm | #
Okay, so we get to live during the decline and fall. Spengler saw this coming 80 years ago, so why is everyone so surprised?
There is a lot of anger and sadness in this section, and I respect that. But I'd like to suggest a shift in our collective consciousness. We're not that great (as a species, that is). Get over your humanism, and embrace the cold darkness of the universe. Ironically, I think that makes us all more "human".
Maybe this stuff will finally wake up all you comfortable Americans. How do you think the rest of the world has always felt?
I encourage us to fight the good fight, but do it like Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, not like Jesus in Revelations.
And yes, fuck all those turncoat Democrats.
rocco |
09.29.06 - 11:50 pm | #
Amen! Annti Amen!
you rock!
I said my piece yesterday and have been watching this all day.
But I finally had to come sign the guestbook.
I wannta see that clicker hit 500
seattleTammy |
Homepage |
09.29.06 - 11:50 pm | #
Maf54: Do I make you a little horny ?
Semi |
09.29.06 - 11:53 pm | #
I would like to declare myself an enemy combatant of this shameful government. My weapons are peace, truth and the firm belief in our shared humanity, both domestic and abroad.
Dave |
09.29.06 - 11:54 pm | #
These are only the proper expressions of the most heartbreaking series of events in modern human history.
Maybe when you wake up and start breaking heads in a few days you will start by straightening out your own.
This bill (along with this government) is a national disgrace, a gigantic leap backwards, and an extremely dangerous precedent.
But "most heartbreaking" in modern history? Tell that to the 8 or 9 million you rightly lay at the feet of the Germans and Italians. Tell that to the Jews, or the Sudanese or the Vietnamese. Tell it to the Cambodians, those imprisoned and killed by Stalinists, American Indians, whomever.
Take your righteous rage and use it, yes, but let your intelligence have the pilot's chair back.
honest commenter |
09.29.06 - 11:58 pm | #
General Sir,
Does Conservative man-boy love typically involve torture?
Or are we talking apples and oranges here?
just wondering |
09.30.06 - 12:04 am | #
I remain stunned by yesterday's events. I feel like I want to give up, but I won't.
Keep fighting - we need everybody!
PBI |
Homepage |
09.30.06 - 12:05 am | #
they all need to go the whores and the perverts,what say we meet in the streets for a beer someplace
guliochip |
09.30.06 - 12:06 am | #
One word. Revolution!
Anonymous |
09.30.06 - 12:18 am | #
Can we graduate from spatulas now, and move on to other devices of painful pleasure, such as waterboards, or possibly racks and whips? I personally like a good spanking now and then, and I don't really see the difference.
I know I want to help waterboard someone, sir! Just the thought of causing simulated organ failure in a brown person makes my little solder stand stiffly at attention.
Maybe they have sharp-edged spatulas so that you can give a little slice to those your wrestle with. Or, maybe instead of wrestling anyone, maybe you could arrange for them to do some time (or all of their remaining time) in Gitmo.
Well, here's to causing a little bit of organ failure, sir!
Private Spatula Handle |
09.30.06 - 12:22 am | #
Général,
long time no see, good to be back for a short visit — the worms started biting me hard again today so I had to get off the coffin for a while. And what a pleasure to see that everything is still going according to plan!
Note that contrary to popular belief, this bill is in fact a brilliant move to balance the budget:
Efficient "interrogation techniques" are now available in-house, making rendition obsolete, thus significantly reducing transportation costs.
This gives a whole new meaning to "tax cuts", doesnt it?
"What do you want, gentlemen?" - Rethondes, 1918
Maréchal Foch |
09.30.06 - 12:24 am | #
General, Sir,
I mentor many young activists, and I truly believe that the things that are happening in the netroots and grassroots are much more important, and will be much more lasting, than today's travesty in Washington. Not only is the outrage palpable, but so is the sense that change is not only possible, but essential. The seeds of change - of greater democratization and a more egalitarian society - are being planted all around us and are coming to fruition all around us. The new technologies don't just enable it, but mandate it.
To begin with, we may well take one or both houses of Congress in November, and even if we don't there are bound to be several *authentic* progressives elected, and that in itself will make a huge difference. But beyond that, there is plenty of progressive social and political change happening on the ground that no one in Washington can stop.
Trust me, General - the best is yet to come...and it won't be too far away...
Dawn
Dawn O'Day |
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09.30.06 - 12:28 am | #
Oh America...how did we let this happen?
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country," said Nathan Hale in 1776 and "Give me Liberty or Give me death" said Patrick Henry. How in the fuck did we get from patriots like that to the satan-spawn that we have in office today? Washington is rolling over in his grave.
Squirrel |
Homepage |
09.30.06 - 12:29 am | #
since the united states isn't any longer, how do does that seceed thing go again???
Che Gueverra IV |
09.30.06 - 12:34 am | #
When I think of loss and death, I'm reminded of this poem by W.H. Auden (only modified to replace 'he' with 'she'):
"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message she is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
She was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good."
Requiescat im Pacem
Bad Wolf |
Homepage |
09.30.06 - 12:48 am | #
Why am I in this handbasket?
SeattleDan |
Homepage |
09.30.06 - 1:17 am | #
First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
DJ Allyn |
Homepage |
09.30.06 - 1:18 am | #
Its beginning to feel a lot like Germany 1934.
surefire38 |
09.30.06 - 1:18 am | #
For those who have mentioned with hope that at least North America has Canada, and let's move there, i.e. here, please be advised that Canada, while not yet dead, is on life support. It is going the way of not the dodo, but America. Just ask Mr. Maher Arar, innocent Canadian citizen and the poster child for your country's unfrickinbelievable torture policy, foreshadowing our own country's path to hell.
Secondly, please don't move here. You already let it happen to yourself. Why do you think you could stop it here?
From Canuckistan with love |
09.30.06 - 1:19 am | #
Just codifying what was already going on. Its all out in the open now.
Every generation has its shame. It doesn't mean its time to give up hope.
JoshA |
09.30.06 - 1:22 am | #
it's not fucking dead as long as we are alive and breathing and fighting. why the hell must we surrender?
amasa |
09.30.06 - 1:23 am | #
I say we storm congress on November 1.
Could we get a million people to march on Washington? Or do Americans just not care anymore?
I'll start making "Enemy Combatant" shirts for us.
faeru |
09.30.06 - 1:23 am | #
My first thought is Revolution.
My second thought is Secession.
My third thought is Canada.
I'm terrified now.
A Liberal Lesbian Penitant |
Homepage |
09.30.06 - 1:36 am | #
For Christians, it's time to really pray about who Bush might be. Are you going to wait until we attack Iran to wake up? Are you going to wait for the next false flag attack that will usher in Martial Law?
I see the wailing and gnashing of teeth is still in full panicked force here.....Don't worry your little liberal heads over it too much....the adults(conservatives)will protect you,regardless of the fact that you would rather surrender-as usual.....Buck up,libbies....it's going to be allll RIGHT now.....We're HERE for you......so open the door....don't make us break it down
libsarereactionaryidiots |
09.30.06 - 1:45 am | #
I found the following video last night, while searching for a decent version of McCartney's, "Live and Let Die". It is a live version of "THIS IS A REBEL SONG", performed by Sinead O'connor at the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Don't mistake it for a love song.
And as long as I'm posting Irish love songs, here are The Cranberries doing "Zombie" on MTV's Unplugged.
L.G. Fucktard |
09.30.06 - 1:47 am | #
Can the Général come out and play. It sounds like the SC will strike this whole thing down, unless Kennedy drops dead. Anywho, the snark with Foley, Boehner and Hastert needs the Général's touch.
Boehner gives Hastert the shaft.
Hastert shafted by raging Boehner.
You get the idea.
hit_escape |
09.30.06 - 1:50 am | #
I'm a son and grandson of union men.
In the words of one of our greatest, paraphrased, "Don't mourne, organize!"
Perhaps trite, but Joe Hill was right.
While I harbor white hot anger at the evil, dangerous Republicans, and their Democratic collaborators, I will not abandon my party, or more importantly, my country. This is our country and we continue to have a responsibility to ourselves, our children and our fellow inhabitants of this fragile and hurting planet to see that the awesome power and potential that resides here is not used for evil but rather for good.
I'm a newly elected PCO and I'm doorbelling tomorrow, and I'm asking my neighbors whether they want people tortured in their name, and if not, whether their registered and ready to vote.
LeftofLiberal |
09.30.06 - 2:02 am | #
Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty or give me death."
Nathan Hale: "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
Sen Pat Roberts of Kansas: "You don't have many civil liberties if you're dead."
dhooters |
09.30.06 - 2:10 am | #
Ah, America, I knew her well!
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” - Sinclair Lewis
Rest in Peace, Sweet Land of Liberty...
lezlie |
09.30.06 - 2:11 am | #
Cue Mozart's Requiem in D. Minor, K. 626....
Ruthie |
09.30.06 - 2:12 am | #
Not only is the GOP Congress into corruption and S&M, now we can add child molesting to the mix. What's next? (Santorum has already called dibs on man-on-dog sex.)
Damn. Maybe this will go down as a mercy killing. How much more could the country have stood anyway?
Larry Roth |
Homepage |
09.30.06 - 2:23 am | #
Well, the past couple of decades were pretty painful for old America anyway. And the last 5 years she has really been suffering, so maybe it's for the best.
steve ex-expat |
Homepage |
09.30.06 - 2:27 am | #
It's a sad day that's passed here, and brings the sad days to come.
mitchlarson |
09.30.06 - 2:28 am | #
it still exists in google's cache. It's time for another revolution.
mshew |
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09.30.06 - 2:35 am | #
"honest commenter":
"Take your righteous rage and use it, yes, but let your intelligence have the pilot's chair back."
Tell ya what, pumpkin.
When you're big enough to read the WHOLE comment, THEN you can start critiquing.
And I don't see you coming up with a single idea of your own, so what's your fucking point? Just to be some little pissant, criticizing those who HAVE? I hate to break it to you, darlin', but that job's currently filled, unless you plan on telling Bill O'Reilly that Rupert hired YOU.
But Tammy, you and Dan give me hope. Hope that despite the little traitors in our midst, despite the preening corpulent frat-boy dog-fuckers who come here to take a giant steaming dump on what's left of our Constitution, despite the way that way too much of our country SIMPLY DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT --- that we still have a shot at this.
That as long as we can claw, fight, bite, kick, and gouge, we can still remain free.
But it won't be won with condescending pricks sowing dischord. It won't be won by people apologizing for or ignoring the treason of the Democrats in question. And it sure as hell won't be won by a bunch of us sitting around doing transcendental masturbation until the cows come home.
I pose to y'all the same question I've been asking for the past year or so: How do we reach the others? How do we make the "sheeple" of this country understand how this affects THEM, and WHY they should care? How do we reach out to people who have sworn to hate, defile, and disrespect us because they don't even understand how they're being manipulated by their blessed fake Jeebuses in Wall Street suits?
You can't start a real revolution unless those revolting outnumber or at least outmuscle the despots in charge.
We need backup.
We need our neighbors.
So how do we bring them over into the light and out of the bullshit blinders of the republicunts?
Anntichrist S. Coulter |
Homepage |
09.30.06 - 2:45 am | #
Mon General,
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Is there a pedophile in the House?
USA |
09.30.06 - 2:57 am | #
There are always a few pedophiles in the GOP. Now all we need to do is turn a new page.
The House |
09.30.06 - 3:02 am | #
My head hurts from caring too much.
townser |
Homepage |
09.30.06 - 3:12 am | #
Don't worry your little liberal heads over it too much....the adults(conservatives)will protect you,regardless of the fact that you would rather surrender-as usual.....Buck up,libbies....it's going to be allll RIGHT now.....We're HERE for you......so open the door....don't make us break it down
libsarereactionaryidiots
...
The conservative idiots will protect us from the conservative idiots? That makes me...
...a little horny. |
09.30.06 - 3:29 am | #
Maf54 (7:48:00 PM): did you spank it this weekend yourself
Xxxxxxxxx (7:48:04 PM): no
Xxxxxxxxx (7:48:16 PM): been too tired and too busy
>>>
God do I know how that feels.
so tired so tired |
09.30.06 - 3:34 am | #
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds. I think withal
There would be hands uplifted in my right,
And here from gracious England have I offer
Of goodly thousands. But for all this,
When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,
Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country
Shall have more vices than it had before,
More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever,
By him that shall succeed.
(Shakespeare, The Scottish Play, IV.iii.39-49)
One Ping Only |
09.30.06 - 10:58 am | #
Who would have thought that Kafka's 'The Trial' would become a How To book.
The worst part is there's nowhere else to go. It was a great country (if you don't look back at slavery, Okies, Japanese concentration camps and Kennedy's war on communism in Southeast Asia). But the 230 year battle seems to have been lost. We can only hope that the numbers of those who are tired and hungry and disgusted grow to outnumber the rigged voting machines and ID required polling places we are soon to be greeted with.
WE LIBERAL PATRIOTS NEED TO BUY GUNS AND AMMO!
Spark St.Bongwater |
09.30.06 - 12:36 pm | #
Land of the fear.
zero zero |
09.30.06 - 12:58 pm | #
It wasn't enough to use the Constitution as toilet paper. Now, with as much crap as they've been shoveling, they had to go and get the Magna Carta to wipe their asses.
JT |
09.30.06 - 1:10 pm | #
And so we say goodnight.
Sha |
09.30.06 - 1:10 pm | #
So long, assholes.
Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
ootpoot |
09.30.06 - 2:38 pm | #
Failure to Filibuster = Dereliction of Duty.
DSCC, DCCC, DNC = APPEASERS OF FACISTS
DSCC, DCCC, and DNC - You get no more $upport from me.
I will donate to and work for liberal candidates dedicated to protecting the Constitution and our rights.
Duke S |
09.30.06 - 3:25 pm | #
Oh, ootie-
So like a "conservative"; you can lead a horse to liberty but you can't make him stop wanting to poke it in the buttocks.
The door is swinging, my fascist friends, watch your fingers.
Else you won't be able to diddle more children.
Got Revolution?
the Rev Jerry Gloryhole |
09.30.06 - 3:36 pm | #
stinkeye, always a light in dark places.
Desi |
Homepage |
09.30.06 - 6:12 pm | #
when certain peoples proclaim they are restoring the intent of the framers of the constitution, what exactly is this intent they speak of?
The federalist gave us a constitution that omitted a Bill of Rights, legalized slavery, denied woman rights, and the biggie, prohibited 95% of American's from voting. no wonder this intent is so appealing to them.
The anti federalist Patrick Henry demanded 40 amendments be atached to the constitution. 3 years later he won us 25 of the 40, five alone are found in the 1st amendment.
The day the anti-federalist kicked tyrant butt, and atached the Bill of Rights, reafirming unalienable rights usurp and over rule the power and authority of government, is the day America started a civil cold war, and why we are US vs THEM, blue VS red.
the problem with "US" is we're fricking idiots fighting a culture war. we're not in a culture war, we're in civil cold war. fight the right war and we wont get our butts kicked.
the declaration of independance is clear, unalienable rights over rule the power and authority of government, the federalists on the supreme court have restored the original intent rulking government usurps equal unalienable rights, Uncle Jesus Sam lord god of us all.
Christopher |
09.30.06 - 6:43 pm | #
It's not over, folk! This is Bush's last yelp!
The Danes fought a successful, non-violent resistance against the Nazis.
We should be able to do the same thing against the goddamned, stupid ass, fascist GOP!
DON'T FEED THE BEAST.
Stop supporting Bush's oil companies...and they are ALL his oil compnies. If you must buy gasoline, buy it from CITGO. That will piss off Shell, Exxon-Mobil, etc.
STOP SHOPPING AT WAL-MART!
Stop watching Fox! Boycott all their sponsors.
Stop and think about ways that you can keep money out of the hands of corporate robber barons. Cut back on the use of electric power... Stop supporting the CORPORATE/FASCIST infrastructure that keeps the torture establish in business.
From an earlier era: DROP OUT!
This is but a short list. If millions boycotted Fox and their sponsors, you can bet it will get some big time attention.
We can change the world but only if we get off our asses and wage a revolution.
BUSH'S FASCIST DICTATORSHIP MUST BE BROUGHT DOWN NOW!
Len Hart |
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09.30.06 - 7:42 pm | #
In "Casino", Joe Pesci voice-overs:
"We had it all, but we fucked it up."
--
"Jesus Camp" - A little slice of North Korea right here in the Fatherland.
drydiggins |
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09.30.06 - 8:24 pm | #
A Farewell To The American Citizen...
Showing this thread to every(awakend)person I can think of.
The thoughtful,intelligent posts were much enjoyed,and appreciated.
230 years,the sacrifice of each generation of our dearest blood,and we come full circle.We now labor under a tyrant named George.
We have been warned.
Some of us have shouted from the rooftops.And have been met,for the most part,with nervous silence.
At this point in our history,the American People resemble,and behave exactly like,a deer in the headlights.
How did it come to this?
Dt1@globaltruths.net |
10.01.06 - 4:00 am | #
You're all so very adorable when you start talking revolution and boycotts and tough sounding rhetoric..............In the immortal words of Ash;"Come get'cha some!......Hail to the King,baby!" ....................post script advice:Better stock-pile those weapons quickly, little libbies...you never know when "The Revolution" might start!....To arms,little libbie soldiers,to arms!
libsarenowcutelittleinsurrecti |
10.01.06 - 4:08 am | #
My log-in name should read;libsarenowcutelittleinsurrectionists......but insurrectioni sounds kind of fun,as well...sort of like cacti...... So long,farewell...little libbie rebels.
libsarenowcutelittleinsurrecti |
10.01.06 - 4:24 am | #
out of all these wonderful comments this one is to me the most interesting:
What's the problem? You have nothing to worry about if you haven't done anything wrong.
Born Too Loose | Homepage | 09.29.06 - 4:47 am | #
this person is arrogant or naive enough to believe that he or she has some say in whether he or she has "done anything wrong." in fact, el general, if you would, please collect that person's ip address and forward it to the authorities so a proper investigation can begin.
mc in va |
10.01.06 - 5:29 am | #
I'm thinking Canada or Australia. Kind of sad for the scion of a Revolutionary war legacy family. But when my ancestors were fighting the British, it wasn't so we could be facist dicatorship under Il Bushi.
Moses |
10.01.06 - 12:51 pm | #
Torture and Imprisonment:
The Bush faithful working hard to create "Hell on Earth."
owlbear1 |
10.01.06 - 1:36 pm | #
I threw a little vid on my blog similar to the J. General's idea here.
Did you ever hear "Wallflower" by Peter Gabriel? Listen to the lyrics closely. Heh. It was meant for Apatheid.
Thanks to everyone who fought the good fight.
WTF? What happened to this Country? Who's gonna save us now?
Thank You Bush and the Republican Party!
At least in the old days we just whupped them slaves and raped the women, [sniff], we weren't so crass as to spell it out in a law. Heavens! Even the Fugitive Slave Act didn't describe what we'd do to the poor rascals, sir -- that was simply understood amongst gentlemen.
As long as we're rewriting the values our nation has so long held dear (from liberty and justice to tyranny and oppression), perhaps we must also rewrite our songs. My humble submission:
Monsieur Colbert explains:
When I was little, the nuns told us that the end of the world may come in our lifetime, so we must always stay alert. This must have been what they were talking about.
I listen to all the songs on my computer with darkness in the title.
What's the problem? You have nothing to worry about if you haven't done anything wrong.
I'm so sorry for your loss. But your legacy lives on, just in other countries.
And the VAST majority of Americans, going about their busy day, haven't the slightest inkling.
Let Etats-Unis: Quelle dommage!
Monsieur Nelson d'Etat Florida, fuckez vous.
Thank you, General. Of the major French blogs, yours is the only one to pay the proper attention to this, and the only one to react to its horror in the appropriate proportion. Kos is obviously bored by the whole thing, Atrios seems to be paying lip service, FDL can't turn off the snark for 10 seconds, etc. The worst thing we can do is pretend this whole thing never happened.
OK-- 2 of the 3 branches are beyond redemption. Is there any possibility that the Supremes can save us from this latest horror?
"America,
Thanks for the morning pick me up.
Today we cry
So when do the "Nacht Und Nebel" secret round-ups begin? 
Absurd as it is, the only choice for anyone reading this comment thread is to vote for Democrats. To give up in disgust, and disgusting it certainly is, is to be played yet again by Mr. Rove and his puppet Dubya. But by gawd if the Dems. do get some Congressional power in November, they had better start attacking these fascists p.d.q. Some hope is better than none at all.
Vote for Democrats? Maybe. But what about Lautenberg and Menendez of New Jersey who went along with this crime thereby stopping any filibuster?
The moving finger cancelled the Great Writ, and now moves on.
Bye Bye Miss American Pie...
I cry tears of oil; my lamentations are voiced by Cruise missiles. 
Looking at the bright side... and its not easy to find one... this could be the final nail coffin for this administration if enough light is shown upon it.
More than ever, in order to stand the pain, I am forced to defend the therapeutic value of Gorgias and his absolute version of scepticism. Thanks to Bush & Co, reality has become something too repugnant.
Greetings colonials. 
I AM ASHAMED TO BE AN AMERICAN TODAY.
Actually, I gave the year of birth as 1787, but then obituaries often get dates wrong. 
The Lady's lamp has gone out.
Jesus wept! (Weeps?)
General,
Shades of 1933.
For the first time in my life I'm thinking it's time to start looking into buying some firearms. Just for, you know, home protection and such.
Meh...I enjoyed the moon landing, and the first three Star Wars films were cool,but i'm not squirting any tears over the death. America was stinking up the place for years before its heart gave out.
You're all invited to come up here to Canada and plot the re-taking of your country. ( leave your guns behind )
And isn't it comforting to know that the Dear Leader will likely append a signing statement claiming even more power than the bill gives him! USA! USA! USA!
America's "last throes" commenced 9/11/01, when evil forces within our government were given the master key to weapons of mass deception. 
Habeas corpus lives on, in Georgia. The county, not the state: "Russian captives in Georgia to be produced in court"
Rest in peace, America.
We'll all miss you.
At least my senators in MD didn't cave into the pressure, though one is retiring and the other isn't up for re-election, but goddamn, I expected this would be the one issue, the one that would help the Dems find their fucking spines.
OMG WHAT'S THAT LOUD FLUSHING SOUND? OUR CREDIBILITY? OUR PLACE AS 'THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORD?'
Yesterday I called Richard Burr's office, even though I knew it was an exercise in futility. As I was explaining to the phone person why I was asking the Senator to vote no on this bill, I started crying. This is not my America. 
closedmind: "wait a few years, get into power" -- yes, using the brute power and force of Harry Reid's stealth Ninja opposition technique we'll be in power in no time... just as soon as we're done rolling over and being rolled.
"The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
The lights have been turned off on that "shining city on the hill".
As bad as it is, it's not as bleak as Valley Forge in December 1777. The cavalry ain't coming. We have to win in November, both houses, and then repeal this abomination. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
OK-- 2 of the 3 branches are beyond redemption. Is there any possibility that the Supremes can save us from this latest horror?
(Eternal) shame on Sens. Lautenberg and Menendez of the state in which I grew up, supposedly blue New Jersey. I hope they're proud.
Well, it looks like we may well fight a new war for independence, thanks, Congress, thanks for nothing, thanks for a class war, thanks for unnecessary wars. This President is an "enemy combatant," just as much as those who oppose him are, think about that for a second, he never believed in the Bill of Rights, nor the Constitution itself, nor did his party (at least not now, they did long ago). What has this bunch of fools wrought on the country? I'm from a red State (AL) I just want to say, that something must be done to temper these people, they've gone too far. Too far right, I used to be conservative, but now I despise them all, and with a state filled to the brim with ideological brownshirts, and congress apparently the same, what can be done? I miss you, America, now I can only take pride in my ancestral homeland, because America was destroyed by corporate oligarchy and blatant partisanship. 
waterboard Bush.
I will never give up.
General sir, as others have said so well, you put this moral issue front and center like no other. 
Hey guys, I know it's a little early yet, but maybe we should start laying the groundwork for an underground resistance network.
"You have a republic, if you can keep it."
Today I cry. 
FUCK MY SENATORS (NJ), FUCK BUSH, FUCK AMERICA, FUCK IT ALL. Canada here I come.
fuck those people
Mein General!
Well done. You are exactly right.
America? Good riddance. I'm sick of apple pie and Fourth of July parades. I'm going home to Appalachia, where we never have considered ourselves part of this travesty.
Jeffersonians, take note. This government no longer guarantees the rights of its citizens. That means it is your duty to change it, by any and all means.
R.I.P., America
US of A fought against the Savages and the Communists, but let the Terrorists win. 
Our Prime Minister her in Thailand was a chip off the old Bush. (only he was successful in business)
"Drove my Chevy to the levee,
Sitting here looking across Lake Erie, northwards, to the land of the free...
"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Liberty dies to thunderous applause. I thought it was a trite line when I saw the last Star Wars movie. Today I am full of chills and fear and the only thing I see is 99% of this country and 99% of the "smart people" who "inform" basically applauding.
Got Fascism?
General, Sir!
The US swallowed poison when the right wing "conservative" Supreme Court appointed a President. 
Luckily for me, I can see Ontario from here.
This is a terrible defeat. It is not the end. WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!! There will be other defeats. But if we don't lose heart, we will win.
They want us gone and they're gonna stop until they get what they want. Pass the ammo.
We are now at the mercy of the Supreme Court.
General, I've lived to see the last fifth of the USA's all-too-short life. What a sad end. What a tragic, hideous, lamentable excuse for a Senate - and a leader.
Steel yourselves.
My heart weeps. My soul is flooded with despair. I'm 54 years old and have 5 small grandsons. What have we done to their future? Somebody, help us. We all, as a nation, will pay a heavy price.
Revolution will come when they treat us all like they've been treating the Blacks.
Let's all hope that we have finally hit bottom and can begin the climb out of this dark hole.
My thirteen year old daughter cried. She is not old enough to even remember the other USA. RIP....finally, peace?
Woke up this morning and the earth was turning a bit quicker, only due to the momentum of our Founding Fathers aggregate tumbling in their coffins.
the story is not over. we have faced dark days before and will take back our country.
A corpse is a corpse
As I went home from work last night, I was acutely aware of all the people around me who apparently didn't even know that their country had taken a huge jump down the road to dictatorship.
They might have forgotten about honor and liberty, but we can and shall remember.
This is our Blood and Honor Law. There is no going back from this atrocity. Senate Democrats who voted the unlimited power to detain and torture US citizens to this Resident are the greatest criminals in our nation's history. May as well have been the post-fire Reichstag. Happy dictatorship, everyone. See you in Canada.
a very very sad time . We need to change the flag to include that guy with the hood and wires .
Ah am mourning, even as Ah am making plans to move back to Frahnce...
Thank you for creating this blog.
Yes, it was nice while it lasted. We can say, we remember it when...
I've lived in a false world. I raised my children to never hurt another, telling them is hurts them by making them see others as objects. I'd grown up thinking that torture was an ineffective methodology because the victims say anything and everything.
You want to know where the Democratic Party's Tom DeLay and Karl Rove are? NOWHERE. And we should be thankful.
It's just in a deep sleep. A temporary coma. It'll wake up. C'mon give it a gooooood shake, say in a couple of years or so.
I couldn't sleep last night.
My biggest fear now is that we'll lose Justice Stevens before the Supreme Court declares the bill unconstitutional.
This means war!
A three part plan:
We'll meet again,
Sadness, yes. Despair, never. Fight, always.
Can we now drop the false dialectic now?
Hi everyone, as an admitted and recovering alcoholic I see many parallels between this country, Bush and the citizenry, without going into all the boring details lets just say that an alcoholic has to hit bottom and or experience a moment of clarity before the recovery process can begin. Most Americans have stumbled blindly through the world not noticing the damage done to this country and ourselves by our rescource abusing life style, foriegn policies and political apathy. Let the 12 stepping begin, remember, it is allways darkest before the dawn. call me nuts but this what I believe, love you all, we can do it just keep trying. Tom
I can only hope that on January 22nd, 2008, President Clinton declares George W. Bush to be an enemy combatant, and that she has him held in secret and subjected to 'harsh interrogation' indefinetly until he confesses to working for Bin Laden.
It was a nice experiment. I'm sorry it didn't work out. Can I keep my cable tv?
Although we have taken a great flying leap off the moral high ground, don't forget that democracy and morality live on in the European Union, Canada, India and many other places. As our economy continues to implode, perhaps these nations can exert economic as well as political pressure on our government to obey international law and restore human rights. In the meantime, welcome to Argentina del Norte.
It's all been said but I'll repeat what I keep saying to myself. This is fucking unbelieveable.
I blame Passion of the Christ. 
Dorothy ... sorry to touch a nerve. i'm on your side. i was just trying to say that i wish there was some leadership in the dem party ... someone who could have rallied them agst this evil.
French beret, anyone?
She shall ever remain the shining example that leads to the founding of a Second Republic.
We'll just have to build it again. Dead on John Adams.
All this, jsut to prevent terrorism...
Nice idea. Too bad we couldn't make it work.
Freedom, freedom, we need freedom. 
i salute you sir. consider this my 21 gun salute to a great nation. however, i was at the funeral for its first death, in Dec of 2000. i guess only the assassins and a few knew then that that was truly a death blow.
Fucking Drama Queens...... "The U.S is dead!!!Oh my Gawd,it's dead!!Waaaaaa!.....Same lame-ass shit that you were screaming back when Reagan was president....come up with some new material,please....you're boring the rest of us.
I mourn the loss of my country.
It isn't dead, yet. Well, not all the way dead. Just mostly dead. Can we delay the wake until Nov. 8, please?
you're boring the rest of us.
I'm not ready to give up yet. We can fix this! Gimme some duct tape and plastic wrap and we'll encase all current politicians within their offices and unplug their phones!
Like many, I'm depressed and fear this cycle will not end, or end well.
The country didn't die yesterday. It still has some life left in it as long as we all remember those who voted to end our liberties and kill off our ideals. We must remember those who voted in favor the the Military Commissions Act, and we must hold them accountable. Republicans and democrats alike, all who voted for this travesty must be removed from office as soon as possible.
I hope that in my lifetime, I can look back on this horrible period in history, tell my granddaughter about all we lost, and maybe, just maybe, we can win back again. 
What benefit will it be to you
My heart is broken. I thought we were better than this. RIP America. We live in Amerika now.
I hope this is just a memorial General sir. 
By their fruits shall you know them.
Just to further annoy the slime molds that passed that bill, I will eulogize my home country in the manner of my co-religionists:
Jesus wept.
A Menendez boycott? How about a write in campaign for some worthwhile NJ progressive? Menendez looks ot be the most vulnerable.
"What's the problem? You have nothing to worry about if you haven't done anything wrong." -- Born Too Loose.
Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.
When will waterboarding derived evidence become admissible in state and federal courts?
what do good people do when their country becomes a dictatorship?
way to fuck it up, America.
*Taps*
Just the battle SIR. 
I have two dd214's. Twice I enlisted in the service of my country, a country whose motives were somehow held in high regard by most of the world.
Inspired by Karl, here is an elegy:
So it's a done deal? It's all over now?
Relax! I haven't seen anything about this on the teevee, so it's obviously not really happening.
I'm already volunteering and contributing to my local Dem candidate. But I feel moved to do some Freeway Blogging. Here are some I'm toying with to wake up my local motorists.
General! Sir!
Maybe it's because I'm still in the denial step of the grieving process, but I still have a glimmer of hope that this will be overturned. Maybe by the Supreme Court, maybe if the Democrats take the House back in November.Maybe this,maybe that.
Are we safe yet?
Just when I think I have an 
I did love my country. Until last night.
Gallows in the Rose Garden. Gallows up and down Pennsylvania Ave.
Where were the protesters in the streets before yesterdays vote? Where were the sit ins,the marches,the speeches?
Easy come, easy go. That nutty constitution had a pretty good run, though, you must admit. What, 219 mostly good years?
Yep, I feel that way too, General -- like I woke up in a different country this morning. And though it had its faults, I still very much liked the old one. It had a lot to be proud of. Now, not so much.
I think Dennis Perrin said it best on this topic 
General, sir, my extensive recon shows that a Frenchman named John Protevi (what the hell kind of name is that?) just sent the following letter to his local newspaper, the Baton Rouge Advocate: 
For disappointed Democrats:
Thank you for the proper response to what has happened.
He thought he was the King of America
We need to keep fighting. KEEP FIGHTING! 
Not with a bang, but a whimper, eh, my general?
dead? no no, it's just pining for the fjords.
Sir--
Hi everyone. I know you are all upset by this but I have a practical question. As long as you people are passing laws to retroactively legalize torture, you know, stuff like waterboarding, is there any possibility you can make it retroactive back to, oh say, 1969? If I was effectively pardoned in such a way Satan said that while I could never leave he would let me have one pack of cigarettes every 1500 years and that would be nice. Thank you for any assistance you can provide me. 
How soon can this piece of crap legislation be brought before the Supremes?
The Canadians are going to have to build a wall along the border.
"Obi-wan never told you what happened to your country did he?"
At long last, the reality is that they do, in fact, have no decency.
Dammit!
Dead? Naw!! Just MORE so! Just MORE America! Bigger and Better!!!! Now we're Amerika EXTREME!!!! You know. Twice the police power, and none of that due process junk weighing ya down!!!! WOOOHOoOoOOOOOoOoO
General Sir,
A memory, and by God a prophecy, from Langston Hughes, despite it all:
Ben Franklin's words still ring true today. I am worried about whether the SCOTUS would actually follow the law instead of partisan hackery. I really can't see it.
Don't give up now, people. It aint over until the goons drag you off, screaming and kicking, in the middle of the night and your neighbors pretend to be asleep.
This is Rove's October surprise? To convince repugs that their re-election hinges on dismantling the constitution, international treaties and human dignity? To scare weak-kneed Democrats that they better fall in line or their own political future is over, regardless of whether their vote causes great hardship to our citizens who fight our wars? I fear the next time I meet someone who supports this nonsense because I am sure to do and say things that will land me in jail. Indefinitely? As a terrorist? With no due process? It does not matter since the person who supports this is the "torturer next door" and deserves hell.
I'm not done until I have a fucking hood on my head in a secret prison. To hell with these traitor scum in office, we're taking our country back one vote at a time.
Hey, it was a fun ride! I don't have any children so I won't feel too bad about leaving the coming hellhole. I'll just keep putting my little soldiers in masonry jars as per the General. They'll be hidden away until they can once again breath the air of true freedom.
What have they done to our wonderful country?
Over my dead body. 
Let's build America 2.0!
Sic Transit Glorai Mundi
I'm shocked that she went so fast. I knew she'd been sick, but I had no idea it was so serious.
Just say No to torture!
General, Sir
I don't know what to say. Thank you all for sharing this struggle. I hope we win, but I'm not hopeful. I will vote for Democrats in November, but that will be the last time I vote for them if they win and impeachment proceedings and war crimes trials do not follow. If they lose...well, let's just say all bets are off. Although I am 51 years old and disabled, I look forward to a new career in civil disobedience, as soon as I find a good home for my cats.
There are many, many new names on this thread that I don't recognize. 
Eh. I'm not ready to give up that easy, General-Suh!
We have just given the worst president in our nations history the powers previously reserved for the worlds worst dictators. I've been numb since I finished swearing at my TV yesterday. I never really believed we'd kill off the Republic. At least it only applies to terrorists and people who give them aid. I'm now paranoid enough that I think even the lurkers at blogs like this are on a watch list somewhere. Now we know what Lieberman meant when he said we criticize the President at our peril.
Time for another Revolution. 
Come to Canada and visit your rights.
I always thought education was the answer. I have tried giving away subscriptions to "The Nation", giving away copies of Zinn's book, and people will not read. "Addicted to War" is the easiest book to read that I have found, and probably an 8th or 9th grader could read it. It has pictures. I can honestly say that I have not educated anyone. What is probably needed is an historical comic book that an asshole can understand.
As far as the eye of god could see,
All joking aside, this bill makes me fearful for my own safety. You see, as an editor, I published a book about Jihad from the perspective of an American Jihadi. He hadn't taken up arms against his country, but he spoke in a language we can understand, and after 9/11 it was important, in my view, to understand that viewpoint, however abhorrent I and others may find it to be. 
Yes, we are now all essentially living in an internment camp. Those of us who toe the line in silence and cough up our money, labor and obedience will be assigned to Tier A - this means we are allowed to move about the country for a few more months. 
I left a humorous comment on the previous post for this issue. Clearly, it didn't take.
Thanks for this site. I've written all 12 apostate Democrats, and have urged my podcast listeners to do the same. With greatest respect to the General, I have put a screencap of your dark screen on my site, posted the letter text I sent, and the addresses of the Senators for people to write. I have also directed them to this site to pay their respects. General, please contact me if you object to the screencap or the traffic I've directed here. 
Thank you for all registering for the Deluxe Caribbean Vacation in Beautiful Guatanamo!
Glad you have paid attention to this, to many it is business as usual. A democracy died yesterday.
It does little good for the people to complain when our representatives lack the guts to do their job. Vote the bastards out in November.
Hey, it was a good run, and h/t to W, "Thanks for the memories."
General Sir,
This was mentioned way earlier in the posts but your average american had no idea what has been going on for almost the last 3 weeks. I brought this whole "detainee" bill to my coworkers and girlfriend's attention yesterday and none,NONE of them had a clue what I was talking about. This whole travesty was protrayed in the media as just another squabble between the two parties. 
Perhaps they SHOULD just go ahead and abolish the filibuster- for all the good it is worth. What could be more worthy of its use than yesterday's vote? 
Guillotine Stock is up 3000%
"Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" -- Bluto
All those who voted for this have given Josef Mengele a nice pat on the back. George Bush has awarded Doctor Mengele a postumous medal of freedom.
"When in the course of human events...."
General,
Have we become the United Snakes of America?
What the F??
The terrorists have won.
America is no longer a Christian nation.
Don't you dare surrender, General, sir, you magnificent bastard, for I will not follow.
I cried last night. It's sad others didn't realize when Bush said it would be easier being a dictator and when Rove said he was a destroyer of Constitutions, there was nothing funny about it. My dem. senator is Salazar. What a spineless piece of shit! Allard had more integrity when he was my vet in Loveland.
I is sad as an Quebecer to see America the champion of freedom decide to do away with freedom. Like the last 200 years where just a phase. Now America as joined the rank of the Torture Contry.
We have only begun the fight Sir. We are armed and ready to flock to your leadership if only you don't give up. Seriously alot of the safeguards in the Bill of Rights were placed there to allow a second revolution if it proved necessary. Don't rule it out.
Ah, deja vu all over again.
rest in peace America. It's been good to know you.
The secrets eternal neither you know nor I
Ah, I'll always cherish the good times, the fun, the cameraderie, and the mutual respect we once had. And I'll miss you, pal. Remember the time my father went to Europe on your money? Of course, he got shot at while he was over there, and had to shoot back and visit concentration camps and such, but he was proud of what he did and you even gave him two bronze stars when he came back.
What's going on? I haven't checked in for a few days. This sounds pretty grim.
Who Would Jesus Torture?
That does it. I am gonna enlist in MoveOn.org before I get drafted for a war with Iran.
Why bother spending the time mourning the death of Amerika when there's a big sale on anti-depressents at Wal Mart? You'll appreciate those pills when they're 'legally' waterboarding one end of you whist 'legally' raping the other.
Bears repeating:
so sad to have been an American in those days. As a stringer for the Fox/ACLU Network since 2012, I get to cover events out in the boonies. Last week, for example, I reported on the annual 'Piss on W's Grave' parade in Litchfield county. I wish one of the wire services had picked it up. I could use the creds. Of course, the St. Ann's Parochial School's choir singing the old Dixie Chicks standard, 'Cry me a yellow river' choked me up, as it always does.
Oh well, democracy and the rule of law made a pretty good go of it for a while.
Who cares about Habeas Corpus?
We mourne, and remember.
Well, the handwriting was on the wall when Bush/Cheney got "re"-elected. Apparently nobody gave a shit (Thanksalot, "Democrats"...great job as "opposition party"!)
What does it take to be named an enemy combatant? Calling George Bush a yellow bellied scum sucking pansy alcoholic coke snorting dumb ass? Or just donating to the local mosque? In Bushworld, both will probably do the trick.
"As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it, "All men are created equal, except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, "All men are created equal except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some other country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
Fear not - The United States of America lives as long as it lives inside all of us who decry this tyranny! 
Kind of reminds me of the good old days when it looked as if democracy would die with Richard Nixon. But then Congress and the Supreme Court stood up and did their jobs.
Congratulations to Osama and his TKO in the 1st round. I only wish old Uncle Sam could've put up a bit more of a fight and at least made it interesting.
We must vote Democrat because it is the next best step. It is the nature of politicians to be spineless facing elections. But there is safety in numbers,if Dems run congress again maybe they will get the courage back to vote their concience. We know the repugs have no concience that is fact,they are completely motivated by their primal insecurities. If that doesn't work then maybe after many lives are lost in the next civil war a new nation will emerge with a renewed passion for the ideals of the once great nation of the United States.
what skunk said...
The American Dream has gotten a bit tougher to attain every years since Nixon bagged it, hasn't it? Your bundle of rights getting smaller and smaller while your government got bigger and bigger...
highly appropriate. a dark time in these united states for sure.
We can no longer be stopped. Thank you self absorbed baby boomers!!
General, 
So, now we must - and to our shame -
One option left:
The Second Amendment is for liberals too. Some of us do still adhere to the Jeffersonian duty. 
I only knew you for 21 years, but you were great for the first 15 or so. God bless.
The clarion call has sounded, sir! I await orders. My sentiments are of all those up thread (except for the troll).
The PROOF that there is no god was handed to us this week by the sadistic, power hungry politicians who pander to the zealous followers of this fictional being. If such an entity existed anywhere in the universes, he/she/it would never allow such an ingnoble end to the noblest experiment ever attempted by civizilation.
I understand the passing wasn't totally unexpected. She has been very ill the last six years.
The saddest part of it all is that the majority of Americans have no freaking clue that anything has even changed.
General, Sir!
I'm sorry, I've skipped a lot of posts and this may have been covered, by why, again, am I voting for Democrats? What delusional imbecile believes they will do ANYTHING even if they DO take back both Houses?
The Democrats are useless. But if you don't vote, instead of getting a bunch of ineffectual morons, you get a bunch of Stalinists. If you don't vote, you resign yourself, you agree to saying "fuck democracy, it's dead." 
Dear America,
Years and years of listening to conservatives state that the Constitution doesn't *grant* rights, but *guarantees* them; that the Bill of Rights merely enumerates specific rights the government cannot infringe upon; that the freedom of religion, speech, assembly, habeus corpus, double-jeopardy, trial by jury, face-your-accuser, freedom from unlawful search and siezure, yes (even though I think it has something to do within the context of a well-regulated militia) the right to keep and bear arms... are not *bestowed* by the government, but are in the Constitution to prevent the government from getting too powerful.
Sir,
The Noble Experiment was great while it lasted. Ultimately it fell not to a foreign invader but to fear, greed and the unbridled lust for power. The weapons were not guns or bombs but televisions and direct mail.
So...
Speaking of Lady Liberty, I reposted an embroidery of her weeping. Seemed suitable today.
The light has gone out and America has descended into darkness. Our country has been taken our liberty and human rights. Our government have abdicated their responsibiliteies and give away democracy and human rights to a dictator who has his hand shoved up a mock presidents ass.I will never be able to believe in America as the defender of freedom again. Under this administration our elected servants have forfeited the right to call this country a democracy - more concerned with giving it to foreign countries than they are about spreading it at home. How far we've fallen in such a short time. I am making plans to move to Canada as soon as I can find a job. I am ashamed to be an American on this day, when the light of our great country was extinguised. I never thought I could be more depressed than when the election was stolen the first time, but I was wrong. America, where have you gone? The grand experiment is over now that the assaults upon human dignity and other laws that form the cement which used to bind us as a nation and allow the strong and the weak to live together in peace have been torn into pieces.
It had to end sometime.
The fight isn't over and America isn't dead. She's in shock, her vitals aren't good. But she's not dead. I intend to go down fighting. And I'm a mean, old, stringy, tough bitch.
"let them eat cake"
Ev'rybody's talking about
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 09.29.06 - 7:42 pm |
How late is Canada open?
I've been depressed all week. The is not our country. Give it back, you thieves! November 7-- VOTE. And spread the word. We need to take our country back. Voting = CPR, our only chance.
this odious bill will be declared unconstitutional and dropped like the piece of shit that it is. However I have heard that a lot of democrats have become disgusted with their representatives and have decided to vote green or not at all. Mission accomplished!
Die & Lie the Bushit way. The RepubliKKKan RubberStamp did it with vischy-Dem help to finally kill-off democracy and the rule of law. Now that my protests are considered to be terrorist actions, I say F*CK YOU TO THE BUSHIT MACHINE. Thank you...
The saddest part of all is this:
I would like to numbered amoung the few who understood what yeaterday was and today is.
@>--`--^--
Mon General!
Congratulations Republicans and sympathizers. You've done more to destroy your country than I ever could have done. Keep up the good work, Vote Republican.
All Repubtiles are human fucking garbage, spawned from the assholes of satanic jackals, sub-human, jesus-crazed scum. We can't rest until every one of them is soap.
Well done, General.
The end is only for those who give up
I just gave to the ACLU and two Democratic candidates.
Damn! I knew it wasn't feeling well, but I had no idea. It seems like just six or seven years ago that it was laughing and singing and really seeming to enjoy life. Truly saddening.
This is truly a dark day for what used to be. . . 'murica. Now all I can do is hang my head at what an absolute travesty and hypocrisy this country has become. We have met the Taliban and it is U.S.
Time for a new revolution, folks.
It was 6 years ago. Then the GDamned Supremes stepped in.
America, we will not soon forget you. You gave us hope and meaning. We will miss you.
A Song on the End of the World
I appreciate you giving this the attention it is due, but I'll never forgive you if you stop blogging.
US Senate scores own-goal for Al-Qaida
Every Senator who voted for this legislation must find himself or herself facing a petition drive to recall and replace them by Monday.
Everyone raise a bitter toast to the Magna Carta. The American Bar Association has a momument at Runnymeade to commerate the role of the Great Charter in US law. The Congress flushed it this week with hardly a thought.
Couldn't keep it, huh? Don't say I didn't warn you.
I'm not dead!
It's appropriate to wear black in time of mourning.
Where's my Kayak?!! Where's my Kayak?!!
Rome recovered. Eventually.
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
werd.
Bullshit. This isn't over yet. Don't lay down now. The bill can (and will) be challenged in the courts, but it's going to take money. Donate what you can to the ACLU NOW:
Only the good die young.
Il n'y a plus d'Amerique.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. 
The Bush cabal has dragged America into one of it's darkest chapters. I weep for my country's soul.
My condolences, Sir. We all mourn together, across all of the miles.
Fascism cannot be reasoned with, can't be negotiated with, it can only be confronted.
Are you saying we should move to France?
Yesterday Iraq, soon Iran and then the world. Our Bush has his Gestapo to decide who will be tortured within his definition of interrogation. How lucky we all are. And how brave our Senators have been. Where will they build the gas chambers that we will need to take care of all those terrorists that Bush will be finding. Stay the course - or should that be the curse?
It was a good idea. Too bad those mother fuckers had to mess it up.
Okay, so we get to live during the decline and fall. Spengler saw this coming 80 years ago, so why is everyone so surprised? 
Amen! Annti Amen!
Maf54: Do I make you a little horny ?
Om Mani Paum ......
These are only the proper expressions of the most heartbreaking series of events in modern human history.
I remain stunned by yesterday's events. I feel like I want to give up, but I won't. 
they all need to go the whores and the perverts,what say we meet in the streets for a beer someplace
Can we graduate from spatulas now, and move on to other devices of painful pleasure, such as waterboards, or possibly racks and whips? I personally like a good spanking now and then, and I don't really see the difference.
Général,
Oh America...how did we let this happen?
since the united states isn't any longer, how do does that seceed thing go again???
When I think of loss and death, I'm reminded of this poem by W.H. Auden (only modified to replace 'he' with 'she'):
First They Came for the Jews
Its beginning to feel a lot like Germany 1934.
it's not fucking dead as long as we are alive and breathing and fighting. why the hell must we surrender?
My first thought is Revolution.
For Christians, it's time to really pray about who Bush might be. Are you going to wait until we attack Iran to wake up? Are you going to wait for the next false flag attack that will usher in Martial Law?
I found the following video last night, while searching for a decent version of McCartney's, "Live and Let Die". It is a live version of 
I'm a son and grandson of union men.
Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty or give me death."
Ah, America, I knew her well!
Cue Mozart's Requiem in D. Minor, K. 626....
I hope.
Not only is the GOP Congress into corruption and S&M, now we can add child molesting to the mix. What's next? (Santorum has already called dibs on man-on-dog sex.)
Well, the past couple of decades were pretty painful for old America anyway. And the last 5 years she has really been suffering, so maybe it's for the best.
it still exists in google's cache. It's time for another revolution.
My head hurts from caring too much.
Who would have thought that Kafka's 'The Trial' would become a How To book.
And so we say goodnight.
Failure to Filibuster = Dereliction of Duty.
Hope you're finally at peace.
stinkeye, always a light in dark places. 
when certain peoples proclaim they are restoring the intent of the framers of the constitution, what exactly is this intent they speak of?
It's not over, folk! This is Bush's last yelp! 
In "Casino", Joe Pesci voice-overs: 
*raises clenched fist*
dear losers,
So long,farewell...little libbie rebels.
I'm thinking Canada or Australia. Kind of sad for the scion of a Revolutionary war legacy family. But when my ancestors were fighting the British, it wasn't so we could be facist dicatorship under Il Bushi.
Torture and Imprisonment:
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