R.I.P. Dave Cockrum

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/28/comic.death.ap/index.html

Who is Dave Cockrum?

- Vox

Padilla Case Raises Questions About Anti-Terror Tactics

Remember Jose Padilla?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/18/AR2006111800484.html?nav=rss_politics
"After he was arrested in 2002, Jose Padilla was considered so dangerous that he was held without charges in a military prison for more than three years -- accused first of plotting a radiological "dirty bomb" attack and later of conspiring with al-Qaeda to blow up apartment buildings with natural gas."
"But now, nearly a year after his abrupt transfer into a regular criminal court, the Justice Department's prosecution of the former Chicago gang member is running into trouble."
"A Republican-appointed federal judge in Miami has already dumped the most serious conspiracy count against Padilla, removing for now the possibility of a life sentence. The same judge has also disparaged the government's case as "light on facts," while defense lawyers have made detailed allegations that Padilla was illegally tortured, threatened and perhaps even drugged during his detention at a Navy brig in South Carolina."

- Vox

Waxman set to Probe Bush Government

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1111-01.htm

Waxman has been vocal throughout "Pres." Bush's regime, but in a Republican controlled gov't, this makes him none existent.

Now, hopefully, citizens will get to hear what he, JOHN CONYERS, RUSS FEINGOLD, & BARBARA BOXER (among others) have to say.

- Vox

Concrete example of the brainwashing of America

Veterans Day Messages from Troops In Iraq, Filmed By Defense Dept., Feature Replica of Twin Towers
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/11/veterans-day-messages-from-troops-in-iraq-filmed-by-defense-dept-feature-replica-of-twin-towers/
"After months of studied ambiguity, President Bush finally admitted that Iraq had “nothing” to do with the attack on the World Trade Center. The Defense Department, however, appears determined to perpetuate the myth."

See for yourself (you probably already have).

- Vox

Say it ain't so, Russ

Feingold Won't Seek Democratic Nod
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=139759

I hope he changes his mind.

- Vox

The Iraq Study Group

Who is this private, non-governmental commission that will be setting the new US course on Iraq?

Iraq Study Group members:
James A. Baker III (Co-Chair): former Sec. of State, senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts. He helped arrange the theft of the 2000 presidential election PUTTING GEORGE W. INTO THE WHITE HOUSE. Baker Botts is defending the Saudi gov't (Bush family friends) in the lawsuit brought on behalf of the victims of Sept. 11, 2001. More on Bush /Baker Botts.

From the groups official web-site: "The White House respects the independence of the group." What a joke! HOW CAN ANY GROUP HEADED BY JAMES A. BAKER III, WITH THE PURPOSE OF ADVISING A BUSH BE CONSIDERED INDEPENDENT????? He's so enmeshed with the Bush's that he's known as Bush's consiglieri.

Lee Hamilton (Co-Chair): former congressman, Co-chair of the 9-11 Commission, chairman of the House select committee investigating the Iran-contra affair. Should be referred to as "the commissioner of Cover-up".

Robert Gates: former head of the CIA, nominated to replace war-criminal Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense (hmmm, interesting...). NOTE: if you go to the "Members" section of the official web-site, Gates ' name is not mentioned, as though he were never a member.

Lawrence S. Eagleburger, former U.S. Secretary of State (replacement for Gates)
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Senior Managing Director, Lazard, Freres & Co. LLC
Edwin Meese, III, former U.S. Attorney General
Sandra Day O’Connor, former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
Leon E. Panetta, former White House Chief of State
William J. Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Charles S. Robb, former U.S. Senator
Alan K. Simpson, former U.S. Senator

This group is being presented to us as independent, outside ("bi-partisan") consultants at the request of members of congress to offer "fresh ideas" on how to proceed with Iraq. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, they are actually a part of this administration's inner circle who are now taking control of the next pre-planned phase of this war.

- Vox

Bush intends to Flee to Paraguay as a war criminal

I thought this was worth noting and putting in the memory banks for future reference. - Vox

Bush Buys Land in Northern Paraguay
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={EBA55617-2676-4091-ABBC-20650EB6FEE1}&language=EN
"...purchase by Bush of a 98,842-acre farm in northern Paraguay, between Brazil and Bolivia."

I got this from the Oct. 13 blog of the Daily Kos.

- Vox

Pat Tillman's Last Day, Reconstructed

A detailed description of his last day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6202173,00.html

""I will not assume his death was accidental or 'fog of war,'" said his father, Pat Tillman Sr. "I want to know what happened, and they've clouded that so badly we may never know.""

- Vox

wow!

Repubs lose TOTAL CONTROL of our government! Rummy gone! I must admit, I did not think it would happen.

To Rummy: Good riddance you eff-ing cur. You've been a disgrace. You war criminal. I hope you have good lawyers! (yes, I'm sure you do)

Not a bad week.

- Vox

FOX SUX II

In FOX's world, Mark Foley IS a democrat.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eQA1VkNGrgs&mode=related&search=

- Vox

FOX SUX

See Keith Olberman's little covered expose of the factfuly challenged Bill O'Reilly.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FfSRwUxjmM4&mode=related&search=

For more on the Malmady Massacre, click here.

Very well done, KO.

- Vox

Bush Cites Oil As a Reason to Stay in Iraq

Bush Says U.S. Pullout Would Let Iraq Radicals Use Oil as a Weapon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/04/AR2006110401025.html

The "F-word"*. Prepare to be "F'd -up" - Vox

...""There are certain things like that, myths, that are floating around," Rumsfeld told Steve Kroft of CBS Radio in November 2002. "It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.""

""Nonsense," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared."

"Now, more than 3 1/2 years later, someone else is asserting that the war is about oil -- President Bush."
""You can imagine a world in which these extremists and radicals got control of energy resources,"..."And then you can imagine them saying, 'We're going to pull a bunch of oil off the market to run your price of oil up unless you do the following. And the following would be along the lines of, well, 'Retreat and let us continue to expand our dark vision.' ""
"Bush said extremists controlling Iraq "would use energy as economic blackmail" and try to pressure the United States to abandon its alliance with Israel. At a stop in Missouri on Friday, he suggested that such radicals would be "able to pull millions of barrels of oil off the market, driving the price up to $300 or $400 a barrel.""
"The world, in fact, has already seen what would happen if Iraqi oil were cut off entirely, as Bush suggests radicals might do. Iraq effectively stopped pumping oil altogether in the months immediately after the invasion. And yet the price of oil has never topped $80, much less come anywhere near the $300 or $400 a barrel Bush cited as a possible consequence of a radical Iraqi regime withholding the country's oil."

Ahhh, simple thoughts from a simpleton communicating with his base.

- Vox

* - fear

U.S. count of Baghdad deaths excludes car bombs, mortar attacks

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15474438.htm
"BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. officials, seeking a way to measure the results of a program aimed at decreasing violence in Baghdad, aren't counting scores of dead killed in car bombings and mortar attacks as victims of the country's sectarian violence."
"In a distinction previously undisclosed, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Barry Johnson said Friday that the United States is including in its tabulations of sectarian violence only deaths of individuals killed in drive-by shootings or by torture and execution."
"That has allowed U.S. officials to boast that the number of deaths from sectarian violence in Baghdad declined by more than 52 percent in August over July."
"Within weeks of the kickoff of the Baghdad security plan, the U.S. military's top spokesman, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, boasted that the murder rate in Baghdad had fallen by 46 percent and attributed most of the fall to the new security sweeps."


Reporter: Mr. President...Mr. President...if there has not been as many as 500,000 Iraqis killed due to the Coalition invasion of Iraq, then how many have been?
President: "oh, about 10 or 20 Iraqis."
(Not an actual conversation. I just made it up, exaggerating slightly. - Vox)