“The Brooklyn Supreme Court Guardianship Program has been hijacked by Mafia-style crime”, charges Reverend Samuel Boykin, court-appointed guardian for Judge John Phillips, the “Kung Fu Judge.” Phillips was a Brooklyn Civil Court Judge for 13 years serving two terms between 1976 and 1994. Boykin is the first family member in a long line of court-appointed guardians to take charge of Judge Phillips’ estate after he was declared mentally incompetent by District Attorney Charles Hynes’ office in 2001.
His story should serve as a cautionary tale for all. “Judge John L. Phillips said to me regularly that if all of these illegal activities can be successfully committed against a judge, they can be committed against anyone,” says Reverend Boykin.
That the tale is long and sordid is a matter of record. Writing in Our Time Press in 2007, reporter Mary Alice Miller has chronicled many of the misdeeds and charges. The New York Law Journal has had extensive coverage. In the hands of judge-appointed guardians, the estate has gone from a value of over $10 million to $18,000 and three properties, including the famous Slave Theater on Harriet Ross Tubman Avenue, aka Fulton Street.
So far only Maria Leyna Albertina and attorney Emani P. Taylor have paid a price for their roles in the saga. Ms. Albertina was sentenced in January to 5-15 years for mortgage fraud activity, some of which involved Judge Phillips’ property. Attorney Taylor, a former interim guardian for Judge Phillips, has been suspended from the practice of law. As reported in the New York Law Journal, January 2008, a unanimous panel of Justices in the Appellate Division wrote that, “At a minimum, [Taylor] withdrew funds from the guardianship account as legal fees without court permission, at worst, she intentionally converted guardianship funds.” She was later ordered to repay $403,149 for mishandling the Judge’s affairs. An application has been made to The Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection to recoup those monies. The fund responded on April 23rd of this year that in addition to needing proof of payment and various other conditions met, “The Fund must await the conclusion of the underlying disciplinary matters pending against Ms. Taylor before proceeding further.”
Of larger concern is what has happened to judicial oversight of the court-appointed guardians and of the whole Guardianship program. As Boykin says in his complaint to Comptroller William Thompson, “There were 12 judges involved in the Judge John L. Phillips Guardianship case, either involved in overseeing the case as presiding judges, issuing decision orders, judicial hearing judges, administrator judges, judges sealing records. We believe none of these judges are legally able to state they were not aware of the illegal activities going on in the Judge John L. Phillips Guardianship case, we believe the case is a good example” of the need for oversight of the Guardianship program.
Reverend Boykin has also filed a complaint with Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s Public Integrity Bureau. They, in turn, have referred the matter to Ms. Sherrill Spatz, Inspector General of the New York State Unified Court System, writing, “After careful review of the documents, we have determined that the issues mentioned pertain to your office….for whatever action you deem appropriate.”
In his letter to Assistant District Attorney Robert Renzulli in the Asset Forfeiture Bureau of D.A. Charles Hynes’ office, Boykin outlines how the Phillips estate has been systematically looted by mortgage fraud including “illegal conveyances, illegal sales and forgery of deeds.” And he asks if anyone is going to pay for these crimes? We should start to hear other shoes dropping in this case. If not, then the silence will mark the all clear for business as usual, and the only thing sure other than death and taxes will be mortgage and financial fraud as legal vultures pick over the estates of primarily the weak and sick, but really, anyone at all.
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I am appalled at the treatment that he received in regards to his service to the denizens of Brooklyn. he should have spent his twilight years enjoying himself; instead, he was disenfranchised, robbed, made destitute and maligned, most notably by the Village Voice.
Forget your feelings about Obama and McCain. Forget that Columbus voters are among the most polarized in the nation. Forget swing states, vice presidential debates and the quickly approaching day of decision. That all comes later.
Remember, instead, the night Hurricane Ike blew through Columbus, tearing trees out by the roots and plunging much of the city into darkness for days.
Like many, Renee Barker spent that humid Sunday night without power. When sleep without air-conditioning proved futile, Barker and her fiancé packed their dogs in the car and went in search of batteries and candles. The neighborhood Giant Eagle was black. The only place Barker could find still operating with power was the United Dairy Farmers store on West Fifth Avenue near Grandview.
Barker walked into the store while her fiancé and their dogs waited in the car. After being told the store had no batteries, the clerk behind the counter, Mark Medina, offered up a curious request: “Can I tell you about my candidate, John McCain?” he asked her.
The comment caught Barker off-guard momentarily. She noticed he was looking at her chest. Then it clicked—she was wearing her Obama sweatshirt. “He picked the wrong girl on the wrong night,” said Barker.
She fired back, “I probably know more about John McCain than you do,” and says she told him, “If you’re really for McCain, I’ll take you down to the local recruiter myself so you can be all that you can be.”
“In the (store surveillance) video, you could see me pointing at my sweatshirt saying ‘Are you kidding me? You’re going to give me a hard time because I wore the wrong thing into your store?’” said Barker, a petite 36-year-old Victorian Village resident.
Barker admits she’s passionate about her politics and other social issues. A former Whole Foods employee who’s recuperating from recent surgery that left six pins in her back, she rescues thoroughbred horses in her spare time. She’s preparing to leave for Uganda in the spring to teach English.
She says she’s donated money to the Obama campaign and concedes she’s not afraid to engage in any challenge to her political beliefs. On this night, though, wearing her political beliefs on her sleeve created a situation that turned quickly from the absurd to the surreal.
She says what she thought would become little more than a political debate turned confrontational when another employee—who Barker describes as “a little hip-hop girl in big clothes”—emerged from the back. Medina told his employee that Barker was a “stupid loud-mouthed liberal,” according to Barker. After a few more words, Barker says she turned to leave as the female employee stepped toward her shouting, “get out of the store.”
Barker insists there was no physical contact, no property damage and, toward the end, only minimal profanity. “I asked him valid questions, and he just put his head down and started sweeping,” said Barker, “and I’m like, ‘You brought it up—you don’t do that to the consumer.’”
Barker’s fiancé watched the encounter from their car, puzzled. “I thought, you know, it might be politics, it might be the weather,” he said. Barker’s fiancé, who asked to go unnamed, said he didn’t think too much of the incident until Medina came to the front of the store as Barker emerged, phone in hand, and began copying down the couple’s license plate number.
At that point, Barker’s fiancé, a recent MBA graduate, who Barker describes as normally easy-going and reserved, approached Medina himself, asked him what he was doing and, when told he was filing an assault charge with police, grabbed the paper with their license number from him, tossed the store’s phone on the ground, left the store and drove home.
Medina called 911—at the same time the police were receiving a higher –than-usual volume of calls due to city-wide power outages—and reported that the couple, whom he described as a white woman and a Mexican (Barker’s fiancé is of Pakistani descent), were intoxicated and had assaulted him and his female coworker. Medina filed a criminal trespass report against Barker and her fiancé, stating they “became verbally aggressive and refused to leave” the store. (Barker denies refusing to leave.)
“He’s calling in 911 like it’s life or death,” said Barker, who heard a transcript of the call, “‘Some Mexican and drunk woman are raising hell.’ That’s why an officer had to show up in the middle of the blackout and take case of that BS.”
Barker and her fiancé went home and, after talking through the incident, decided to call police on their own and find out if, indeed, the UDF employees had filed some police report. When told a report had been filed, and that both she and her fiancé were described as intoxicated, Barker invited police to her Victorian Village home to test them, worried that a phony police report could wind up on their record. Police declined, and have not filed charges against the couple. Barker says when she explained to police what had happened; they advised her to contact United Dairy Farmer’s to get things straightened out. But things only got worse.
Cincinnati-based United Dairy Farmers was founded and owned by the Lindner family, who are no less shy about their politics than Barker herself. Patriarch Carl Lindner Jr., a self-made billionaire and former CEO of the Cincinnati Reds, is a major financial backer of the Republican Party on local and national levels.
The family ranked 205th on this year’s Forbes’ “400 Richest Americans” list. In 2004, Lindner was named by the National Republican Committee as one of George Bush’s 62 “Super Rangers,” the highest fundraising designations for donating in excess of $300,000 to the GOP. In December, the Washington Post reported Lindner was the national co-chair of Mitt Romney’s run for the GOP presidential nomination, while his son, Carl Lindner III, backed Mike Huckabee.
When asked if they allowed political canvassing in any of their stores, consumer relations representatives in the Cincinnati corporate offices responded, “No, we do not,” before declining to give a name or further comment.
Numerous other calls to UDF store and corporate personnel were not returned or declined for comment.
Immediately following the Sunday night incident, which occurred around midnight, Barker called UDF’s corporate offices. Monday evening, she received a call from Medina’s supervisor, which registered as a blocked number on her phone records.
“She was sweet as sugar, told me she’d get back to me,” said Barker. Another day passed. “Once I realized they were doing nothing,” Barker said, she followed the advice of the police dispatcher and called the store for the contact information of a higher supervisor.
Though it was 4:21 Tuesday afternoon, Barker said Medina answered her call and refused to give the supervisor’s number. She called the corporate office again, and was connected, not with a supervisor, but with the senior security specialist for the Columbus UDF zone, Carl Rankin.
“They (were) doing nothing about it, they (were) basically like giving me the finger, especially the head of security was very threatening,” said Barker. “He never listened to my side. I told him I was just trying to reach a manager and he’s like, ‘look Miss Renee. . .’”
Barker hung up with Rankin unsatisfied. An hour after her call to the Fifth Avenue store, Barker’s phone records show she received a blocked call, which she says was a threat. She called police.
According to the Columbus Police report of the incident, Barker stated that the caller told her, “Watch your back, I’m watching you,” and “I know where you live,” then asked her how her pets were doing and that the caller had seen them at UDF the night of the blackout.
“It does not take a brain surgeon to figure out that my number popped up on the UDF phone,” Barker said. “I call to ask for a supervisor and an hour later I get a threatening phone call?” As of Wednesday, police had issued a second round of subpoenas for the identity of the blocked caller.
Later that evening, Barker called the corporate offices once again and reported the threat. “He told me it was not a UDF issue, but that he’d try to give me a call in a couple of days,” Barker said.
A few days later, on Sept. 22, Barker received a letter from Rankin, UDF’s district head of security. The letter cited a “situation” she was involved in at the Fifth Avenue store along with “harassing phone calls to Corporate offices” between September 14-16.
It stated further: “You are being advised that you may not enter any United Dairy Farmers store or property,” and that “several police reports have been made as a result of your actions.”
Neither the Columbus Police nor the city prosecutor’s office have record of the harassment reports Rankin referenced, nor has she received any official notification that charges and/or formal complaints have been filed against her.
“Just because you receive a threatening letter from the corporate office doesn’t mean (everything). They can come down here and attempt to pursue charges, but (even if they do) that doesn’t mean they automatically get them,” said assistant city prosecutor Bill Hedrick.
Barker’s phone records indicate she made 15 calls in all, to the Cincinnati corporate offices, the Lewis Center district offices and Grandview store between early in the morning September 15 through the evening of September 17. Phone records indicate that seven of those calls were spent in transfer or on hold between customer service representatives.
It should come as no surprise that things are so heated on the ground in Columbus this election year. CNN’s broadcast of the first presidential debate last week featured correspondent Soledad O’Brien’s live polling of a focus group in Columbus because it consistently polls as being split by a narrow margin in favor of the Democratic Party. Political analyst for CNN John King noted Franklin County’s prominence on the Ohio map as the only blue county in a sea of red.
“She’s in a central area and a persuadable area,” King said of his colleague in Columbus, “a swing area of a very critical state…in this election and in every election.”
It might be easy to dismiss the whole chain of incidents as personal politics boiling over on a stormy night in total darkness, smack in the middle of a city completely polarized in its electoral politics.
But Barker is no longer amused when that political passion becomes a police incident. “I’m not a patient person, I admit flat out, and I do not like being threatened,” Barker said. “There are a lot of uninformed shoppers who run into UDF stores across the country—a lot of Democrats—and this is where it all began. Now it’s a safety thing for me.”
She’s awaiting the results of the telephone subpoenas and intends to file criminal charges against the caller.
Barker says she’s also considering a civil action against UDF. “Civil litigation is not to be entered into lightly,” she said.
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The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis-
The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals; the first was a Virginia investigation 26 years ago- In both studies, the THC shrank or destroyed tumors in a majority of the test subjects-
Most Americans don't know anything about the Madrid discovery- Virtually no major U-S- newspapers carried the story, which ran only once on the AP and UPI news wires, on Feb- 29, 2000-
The ominous part is that this isn't the first time scientists have discovered that THC shrinks tumors- In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia-
The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research, according to Jack Herer, who reports on the events in his book, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes-" In 1976 President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies, who set out -- unsuccessfully -- to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the "high-"
The Madrid researchers reported in the March issue of "Nature Medicine" that they injected the brains of 45 rats with cancer cells, producing tumors whose presence they confirmed through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)- On the 12th day they injected 15 of the rats with THC and 15 with Win-55,212-2 a synthetic compound similar to THC- "All the rats left untreated uniformly died 12-18 days after glioma (brain cancer) cell inoculation --- Cannabinoid (THC)-treated rats survived significantly longer than control rats- THC administration was ineffective in three rats, which died by days 16-18- Nine of the THC-treated rats surpassed the time of death of untreated rats, and survived up to 19-35 days- Moreover, the tumor was completely eradicated in three of the treated rats-" The rats treated with Win-55,212-2 showed similar results-
The Spanish researchers, led by Dr- Manuel Guzman of Complutense University, also irrigated healthy rats' brains with large doses of THC for seven days, to test for harmful biochemical or neurological effects- They found none-
"Careful MRI analysis of all those tumor-free rats showed no sign of damage related to necrosis, edema, infection or trauma --- We also examined other potential side effects of cannabinoid administration- In both tumor-free and tumor-bearing rats, cannabinoid administration induced no substantial change in behavioral parameters such as motor coordination or physical activity- Food and water intake as well as body weight gain were unaffected during and after cannabinoid delivery- Likewise, the general hematological profiles of cannabinoid-treated rats were normal- Thus, neither biochemical parameters nor markers of tissue damage changed substantially during the 7-day delivery period or for at least 2 months after cannabinoid treatment ended-"
Guzman's investigation is the only time since the 1974 Virginia study that THC has been administered to live tumor-bearing animals- (The Spanish researchers cite a 1998 study in which cannabinoids inhibited breast cancer cell proliferation, but that was a "petri dish" experiment that didn't involve live subjects-)
In an email interview for this story, the Madrid researcher said he had heard of the Virginia study, but had never been able to locate literature on it- Hence, the Nature Medicine article characterizes the new study as the first on tumor-laden animals and doesn't cite the 1974 Virginia investigation-
"I am aware of the existence of that research- In fact I have attempted many times to obtain the journal article on the original investigation by these people, but it has proven impossible-" Guzman said-
In 1983 the Reagan/Bush Administration tried to persuade American universities and researchers to destroy all 1966-76 cannabis research work, including compendiums in libraries, reports Jack Herer, who states, "We know that large amounts of information have since disappeared-"
Guzman provided the title of the work -- "Antineoplastic activity of cannabinoids," an article in a 1975 Journal of the National Cancer Institute -- and this writer obtained a copy at the University of California medical school library in Davis and faxed it to Madrid-
The summary of the Virginia study begins, "Lewis lung adenocarcinoma growth was retarded by the oral administration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabinol (CBN)" -- two types of cannabinoids, a family of active components in marijuana- "Mice treated for 20 consecutive days with THC and CBN had reduced primary tumor size-"
The 1975 journal article doesn't mention breast cancer tumors, which featured in the only newspaper story ever to appear about the 1974 study -- in the Local section of the Washington Post on August 18, 1974-
Under the headline, "Cancer Curb Is Studied," it read in part:
"The active chemical agent in marijuana curbs the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice and may also suppress the immunity reaction that causes rejection of organ transplants, a Medical College of Virginia team has discovered-" The researchers "found that THC slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent-"
Guzman, writing from Madrid, was eloquent in his response after this writer faxed him the clipping from the Washington Post of a quarter century ago-
In translation, he wrote:
"It is extremely interesting to me, the hope that the project seemed to awaken at that moment, and the sad evolution of events during the years following the discovery, until now we once again draw back the veil‚ over the anti-tumoral power of THC, twenty-five years later- Unfortunately, the world bumps along between such moments of hope and long periods of intellectual castration-"
News coverage of the Madrid discovery has been virtually nonexistent in this country- The news broke quietly on Feb- 29, 2000 with a story that ran once on the UPI wire about the Nature Medicine article- This writer stumbled on it through a link that appeared briefly on the Drudge Report web page- The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times all ignored the story, even though its newsworthiness is indisputable: a benign substance occurring in nature destroys deadly brain tumors-
Raymond Cushingis a journalist, musician and filmmaker- This article was named by Project Censored as a "Top Censored Story of 2000-"
Okay...a video that is pretty much right to the point (be warned - language is QUITE direct):
My bud convinced me that this video isn't over the edge...but if you want something more elegant, H.L. Mencken said it best:
"It is one of my firmest and most sacred beliefs... that the government of the United States, in both its legislative and its executive arm, is ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, and disgusting... that the administration of justice in the Republic is stupid, dishonest, and against all reason and equity... that the foreign policy of the United States, its habitual manner of dealing with other nations, whether friend or foe, is hypocritical, disingenuous, knavish, and dishonorable... that the American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages."
Lou Pearlman, creator (?) of boy bands The Backstreet Boys and N'Sync Sentenced to 25 Years for Scam - yeah...the scam not withstanding...he should be put in the stocks for unleashing that crapfest upon our senses.
1. Getting the Black population addicted to the new wonder drug, CRACK - this was created by the CIA, FBI and other agencies (I'd appreciate some verification - any takers?); in order to destabilize the Black communities who were coming to awareness of the similarities with every other community coming of age in America. The agencies were successful with the Black Panther Coloring Book and smears against celebrities such as Jean Seberg; the next step was to divide and conquer...but how to do so? Cocaine was entirely too expensive, and freebasing was considered too industrious...so a cheap, addicting smokable form was created, and introduced into the Black communities - goodbye, Black Panthers! Who has money for causes when they're chasing that "hit"?
2. The "War On Drugs" is a complete oxymoron, like "military intelligence". Kevin Ives and Don Henry were murdered by the operators of the Mena Drug Ring, overseen at one point by the then-governor of Arkansas, William Jefferson Clinton. When the operation was discovered, the boys were murdered, and their murders were covered up by coroners and officials stating that the kids were playing on train tracks and had gone to sleep, which led to them being run over by a train. The operation was then moved to Afghanistan, where our soldiers are putting their lives on the line for the next crop of opium and heroin.
The War On Drugs is actually the War Against AMERICANS.
Oh, dear...it looks as if the dam is fit to burst, eh, dear readers?
The scuttlebutt on this video is that it's being removed faster than Jenna Bush's underwear at a frat house (I was gonna say Lindsey Lohan, but I LOVE that girl...and I don't like our scumbag lapdog media trying to portray her in a similar light as our recently-married cum-dumpster...oh...THAT'S gonna leave a mark!); but this should convince even the retarded among us that the three buildings that "failed", "blew up", "came down", whatever bloody euphemism one wishes to use, WERE BROUGHT DOWN BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION.
As far as the buildings...how does one reconcile the actual physics and chemistry involved? And those are my weakest science subjects!
I wonder if people realize that they paid to hear Rudolph Giuliani lie to them for over six years? Maybe that's why his campaign went into the shitter! Ha ha, scumbag!
You see, for me, it's a matter of these fucking retards lying to my face about what occurred - the whole story is a farce from beginning to end.
Some idiot ex-CIA guy is actually the leader of some rebel force that is so fearsome, they named themselves after a toilet - this guy is also on a dialysis machine, yet is able to elude any and all forces sent to detain him! Wow! Colonel Kurtz's got nothing on this guy!
Now...he informs the Israelis, and they are able to send out a warning...how nice.
Meanwhile, back in NYC, it's a crystal-clear day...four planes take off from Logan Airport...security managed by an Israeli firm...hey...did they get that warning, too?
Willie Brown knows not to fly.
The Senate is on Cipro.
Salman Rushdie is barred from flying.
First plane impacts with WTC2 - The Monkey King states that he saw the first impact as it occurred...imagine that.
There are Israelis doing the frickin' Riverdance all over the city. Some are so excited, they left their businesses in the WTC buildings! Some, days earlier.
White vans with "non-Arab Middle Easterners" pop up like Sir Charge in that not-so-great Whack-A-Octogenarian commercial (the first Sir Charge commercial was genius...but they "jumped the shark" on the concept already). Ooohh...the bomb-sniffing dogs are going wild! Too bad that they had been removed from the WTC complex in the weeks before the infamous "event".
Binyamin Netanyahu realizes, "Hey - this is frickin' great - now the whole damn world will stop criticizing us on our "appropriation" of Palestine...eh...what? No, schmuck, I meant Jerusalem!"
Another plane...er...where's our air defense?
Richard B. "Skeletor" Cheney: "Hey...just for laughs, let's have a commercial plane totally violate the air space of the NERVE CENTER OF THE UNITED STATES' DEFENSE DEPARTMENT!!! Then let's hide all of the video! The CT's will be eating their own feces trying to figure out what happened!"
Oh, crap! You mean the frickin' passengers got into the cockpit and saw that NO ONE'S FLYING THE DAMN PLANE?!? Shite! SHOOT THAT FUCKER DOWN! And get Ted Olson's wife to do a reading for us...you have that voice-morphing software ready to go? Let's start with this Mark Bingham guy..."
Hey...bonanza! Not only did we happen to pop the trunk of the guy who took the terrorists to the airport; we got two, count 'em, TWO, passports! Geez, I need a suit made out of this stuff.
Folks...I could rant on and on...but it's annoying, I'm sure, to constantly listen to someone sound so bloody self-righteous all the time, yes? I believe that this is the main problem facing the various September 11th Truth Factions. You see...right-wing radio shows conduct what they call "drive-by" broadcasts, saying whatever crap they can make up at the time, then having sycophants to cement said issue in the "minds" of the dittoheads/Factor fans, etc; while left-wing broadcasters heap boring-ass fact after boring-ass fact onerously one after another, until even the most die-hard truth-seeker is dulled into a coma.
Well...my case is a bit different than most.
I DON'T LIKE BEING LIED TO BY IDIOTS.
And understand this: anyone who thought that after watching those damned buildings come down in the fashion that they did, that they were felled by AIRPLANES...ahh...you really are a complete dullard. You DESERVE to be euthanized, sterilized, and relegated to being a "useless eater", and you should consider yourself a complete waste of oxygen.
That's all for now.
UPDATE: Senator Ted Kennedy is relaxing in a hospital after reports that he was suffering from seizures...so, I'm watching CNN, and of course, the candidates are taking this opportunity to give their well wishes to their fellow senator...but I was INCENSED to see ShillarySTANDING IN FRONT OF MAKER'S MARK WHISKEY BARRELS AS SHE GAVE HER "BEST WISHES"!
One might think that it was a nice thing to do, considering if one knows anything about Senator Edward Kennedy, he likes his booze (much as a certain political upstart does, as well), but I consider it a subconscious dig at her fellow senator. If anyone has a screenshot, please send it my way...I need a new wallpaper for my iBook.
Senator Kennedy, I hope to see you in a new man-tailored shirt soon, er ah...
Why don't we call a spade a frickin' spade - what we get are LIES.
Here's Scott Ritter on the DM
Example #1:
Pelosi Plans $178 Billion Blank Check for Iraq
"Measured in blood and treasure, the war in Iraq has achieved the status of a major war and a major debacle."
That's not from the peace movement - it's from the National Defense University, written by a senior Pentagon official who served under Donald Rumsfeld.
Yet despite the overwhelming opposition of the American people, Speaker Pelosi plans to rush a vote through Congress for another $178 billion blank check.
We must stop this madness. Tell Congress: No More Funds for Iraq
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/124?ad=d1
Activists around the country are organizing Iraq Town Halls so we can speak directly to our Representatives:
http://www.democrats.com/iraq-town-halls
Unfortunately most Representatives are afraid to face us at our Town Halls, so we're organizing May Day Protests outside their District Offices on Thursday, May 1 at noon.
May 1 is the original Labor Day, and several unions are going on strike to protest the Iraq War. It's also "Mission Accomplished Day" (2003) and "Downing Street Minutes Day" (2005). Can you join us?
http://www.democrats.com/mayday
Thanks for all you do!
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Torture News Strike
After George Bush told ABC News he personally approved of the approval of torture - including waterboarding - you'd think the story would be front page news, not just on Countdown and The Daily Show.
But you'd be wrong. There has been absolutely no news coverage and just a handful of editorials in the Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer, Kansas City Star, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News.
If your newspaper is missing, help us organize a Torture News Strike.
http://www.democrats.com/torture-news-strike
Call your newspaper editor and tell him/her you are suspending your subscription until they give Bush's torture confession the serious coverage it deserves in the news or editorial sections, or preferably both. Then call the circulation department and tell them to suspend delivery until further notice.
And post about it with your neighbors here:
http://www.democrats.com/torture-news-strike
One week ago, we asked you to sign our petition to Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney for approving torture.
Your response was incredible! In just one week, we delivered 35,000 signatures to our Representatives and Senators!
If you haven't yet signed, please visit:
http://www.democrats.com/impeach-for-torture
Dr. Martin Luther King famously said of the Vietnam War, "A time comes when silence is betrayal." When our President and Vice President personally approve torture, that time is now.
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Of course, a year later, his ass was whacked.
Here's the issue: we have homeless veterans who are jobless, thanks to the short-sighted mindlessness of our military. We have jobs that PROFIT from outsourcing...but who will have money to buy your stupid products? You might get away with paying people in rice, but that won't help your bottom line when NO ONE HAS MONEY IN THE MARKET YOUR GOODS ARE SELLING.
Stupid asses.
Example #2:
Quotes
“One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that’s come before them, where we’re involved, and it didn’t upset my breakfast at all.
–Ronald Reagan, on the international reaction to the U.S. invasion of Grenada, November 3, 1983
The above quote just about summed up The Great Communicator’s take on pegging U.S. foreign policy to international approval rates.
Liberals take a different view. Seemingly, liberals equate international approval –especially by the Europeans–with the worthiness of a U.S. foreign policy goal.
What would American foreign policy look like under Democrats/liberals? Forget about Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, the last two Democrat presidents, and let them tell it in their own words.
Twenty liberal quotes about the United States and other countries.
“There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
–Edward Kennedy, Democrat Senator, MA. Kennedy also said “We’ve known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeing and developing weapons of mass destruction.” September 27, 2002.
“The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
–Ramsey Clark, former Democrat Attorney General
“[T]he war in Iraq has done more to embolden America’s enemies than any strategic choice that we have made in decades.
–Barack Obama, Democrat presidential candidate, March 19, 2008
“I believe … that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week.
–Harry Reid, Democrat Senate Majority Leader, April 18 2007
“I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a “deserter.” What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate.
–Michael Moore
“He’s (Osama bin Laden) been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and these people are extremely grateful. We haven’t done that.
–Patty Murray- Democratic Senator Washington (speech to a high school honors class)
“Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
–Jimmy Carter. Carter inaugurated full diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China in 1979, thus cutting formal U. S. ties with the Nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan. Conservatives severely criticized the treaties as a “sellout” of vital American interests.
“He betrayed this country! He played on our fears! He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure pre-ordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place!”
–Al Gore. Gore also said, “We know that [Saddam Hussein] has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.” September 23, 2002.
“This war has been a grotesque mistake that has diminished our reputation in the world and has not made America safer.
–Nancy Pelosi, Democrat House Leader, September 24, 2004
“In two short years, George W. Bush has taught us what the ‘W’ stands for — wrong. Wrong for our children, wrong for our parents, wrong for our values. Wrong, wrong, wrong for America.
John Edwards- Democratic Senator North Carolina (February 23, 2003 )
“Our paradigm now seems to be: something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don’t, they can go straight to hell.
–Bill Clinton, former Democrat president who was “obsessed with terrorism”
“[Iraq is] the worst strategic mistake in the entire history of the United States–worse than a civil war.
–Al Gore
“Did I expect George Bush to f— it up as badly as he did? I don’t think anybody did.
–John Kerry, Democratic Senator Massachusetts
“One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown.
–Marcy Kaptur- Democratic Representative Ohio
“Bin Laden didn’t come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where … you’ll see America’s hand of villainy.
–Harry Belafonte. Belefonte played an ex-Union Army cavalry soldier in “Buck and the Preacher”.
“I mean, I think, Iraqis, I think, feel that if we drove smaller cars, maybe we wouldn’t have to kill them for their oil.
–Bill Mahr , Larry King Live (November 1, 2002)
“I despise him [President George W. Bush]. I despise his administration and everything they stand for. It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It’s humiliating.
–Jessica Lange, film festival in Spain (September 25, 2002)
“We don’t know whether in the long run the Iraqi people are better off, and the most important thing is we don’t know whether we’re better off.
–Howard Dean - Former Democrat Governor of Vermont and Democrat Presidential Candidate in 2004 (Meet The Press 6/22/03).
“This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation’s grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.
–Woody Harrelson. Actor Harrelson played a colonel in the movie, Pinkville.
“Bush says you’re either with us or against us. I don’t know who ‘us’ is. I say to Mr. Bush—this is what democracy looks like. We will not give our daughters and sons for a war for oil.
–Susan Sarandon. Sarandon played the wife of a retired army military police sergeant in “Valley of Elah”.
That’s the way liberal foreign policy would work.
The reader might want to print this out for quick reference.
One last well-known quote by Ronald Reagan sums up conservative reaction to the above collection:
“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant: It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so."
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Okay...that's it for the quotes. Let's talk about some important stuff.
We The People do not like what our "representatives" are doing. For one, they are NOT representing WE THE PEOPLE in any way. They are in office, it seems, for their own benefit.
Here's a litany of HRC's lies to you and I, by Dick Morris.
Hillary's List of Lies By Dick Morris
The USA Today/Gallup survey clearly explains why Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is losing. Asked whether the candidates were "honest and trustworthy," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won with 67 percent, with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) right behind him at 63. Hillary scored only 44 percent, the lowest rating for any candidate for any attribute in the poll.
Hillary simply cannot tell the truth. Here's her scorecard:
Admitted Lies
• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn't cover the market back then.)
Whoppers She Won't Confess To
• She didn't know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn't know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn't know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn't know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the '90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).
With a record like that, is it any wonder that we suspect her of being less than honest and straightforward?
Why has McCain jumped out to a nine-point lead over Obama and a seven-point lead over Hillary in the latest Rasmussen poll? OK, Obama has had the Rev. Wright mess on his hands. And Hillary has come in for her share of negatives, like the Richardson endorsement of Obama and the denouement of her latest lie -- that she endured sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia. But why has McCain gained so much in so short a period of time? Most polls had the general election tied two weeks ago.
McCain's virtues require a contrast in order to stand out. His strength, integrity, solidity and dependability all are essentially passive virtues, which shine only by contrast with others. Now that Obama and Hillary are offering images that are much weaker, less honest, and less solid and dependable, good old John McCain looks that much better as he tours Iraq and Israel while the Democrats rip one another apart.
It took Nixon for us to appreciate Jimmy Carter's simple honesty. It took Clinton and Monica for us to value George W. Bush's personal character. And it takes the unseemly battle among the Democrats for us to give John McCain his due.
When Obama faces McCain in the general election (not if but when) the legacy of the Wright scandal will not be to question Obama's patriotism or love of America. It will be to ask if he has the right stuff (pardon the pun).
The largest gap between McCain and Obama in the most recent USA Today/Gallup Poll was on the trait of leadership. Asked if each man was a "strong, decisive leader," 69 percent felt that the description fit McCain while only 56 percent thought it would apply to Obama. (61 percent said it of Hillary.) Obama has looked weak handling the Rev. Wright controversy. His labored explanation of why he attacks the sin but loves the sinner comes across as elegant but, at the same time, feeble. Obama's reluctance to trade punches with his opponents makes us wonder if he could trade them with bin Laden or Ahmadinejad. We have no doubt that McCain would gladly come to blows and would represent us well, but about Obama we are not so sure.
Morris, a former political adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of “Outrage.” To get all of Dick Morris’s and Eileen McGann’s columns for free by email, go to www.dickmorris.com.
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Just in case you are wondering, here are my choices for who SHOULD be running for President of the United States of America:
I am going to destroy you bloody neoCONS! I think that about sums it up.
If I am ever "suicided", please KNOW THAT I WAS MURDERED by the BCFCE (Bush/Clinton Family Crime Empire)!
Other "sucides" include Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Danny Casolaro, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Dorothy Kilgallen, James Hatfield, Gary Webb, Don Wiley, James Forrestal, David Kelly, Paul Wellstone, J. Clifford Baxter, David Kellermann, Benazir Bhutto and Vincent Foster, to name a few.
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