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A Presidential sendoff

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The Clinton Campaign says she leads in the category of poor, white, uneducated voters.

What can Obama do to attract those voters to his ticket?

Maybe his choice of VP will do the trick?






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Bush Condoms ... for those Guys who don't know when to pull out!


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Drawing parallels to the rebuilding of Germany and Japan after World War II, President George W. Bush told graduating Air Force Academy cadets Wednesday that they must guard democracy around the globe.

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So, How's the Militarization of the CIA Going?

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In an interview with the Washington Post last week, CIA Director Michael Hayden claimed we're beating al-Qaeda. As Hayden put it: "Near strategic defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Near strategic defeat of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia."



I'll defer to Hayden on Saudi Arabia, but when it comes to Iraq, Hayden betrayed his belief in the neo-con lie that Iraq was one of al-Qaeda's bases before the 2003 invasion and still is today. Can no one drive a stake into a lie that suckered us into a war we didn't need?


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I think i was on dial up speed, last few days.(Excessive of 1 gig.)

Have upgraded to 2 gig.

Let's see what happens now.

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What’s next for Hillary?

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"Sound and fury; signifying nothing.”

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John McCain. To my best knowledge John McCain has never held a "job" in the private world. His father was an admiral and so he was always in a premo position. Grown men would address him as "sir" despite his tender years. McCain has never paid one dime for his health care insurance. He like Eisenhower and so many others, were always under socialized - totally free - medical care furnished by the government but they never wanted to share that blissful state of secure feeling with us ordinary mortals. But our time will come.

Is Big John a Double dipper? Nope! A Triple dipper? Nope. Gosh, are you suggesting McCain is that rare bird, a QUADRUPLE dipper? Yup!

Retired from the Navy.

Disability rated for injuries sustained in the Vietnam War.

Social security.


US Senate retirement. (Due later). And IF he is elected president, he will be QUINTUPLE dipper!

Presidential retirement. Sweet Jesus! Can we afford him? Is Big John a Double dipper? Nope! A Triple dipper? Nope. Gosh, are you suggesting McCain is that rare bird, a QUADRUPLE dipper? Yup!

Retired from the Navy.

Disability rated for injuries sustained in the Vietnam War.

Social security.

US Senate retirement. (Due later). And IF he is elected president, he will be QUINTUPLE dipper!

Presidential retirement.
Sweet Jesus! Can we afford him?

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McSame: McCain Voted with Bush 95% in 2007

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Bush regrets his war words

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News Corpse is considering making posters like this available if there is sufficient interest. Also, stickers with the slogan
"Harmful If Swallowed"
that could be placed on TVs, newspaper vending machines, etc. Please feel free to contact News Corpse if you're interested and if you have any other custom graphic design needs (email at bottom of page).


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Guantanamo criticism intensifies

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I won't play the age card if....



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Why would Dick Cheney lie about...


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Subject: Kucinich and impeachment

Kucinich is talking to Randi right now; says he will introduce the bill again in 30 days if no action
is taken in committee, and is saying what I said; he's doing his job, and impeachment is the tool
to use against an abuse of power. The power of war is Congress's role and Bush usurped that right,
and the rule of law, truth, honor and dignity demands this action. He says he will not let this issue go
and he says he wants hearings.

Why is the House not acting?

Kucinich says he expects more congresspeople to sign on as they have a chance to read the articles
(and, my take, put a finger in the wind).

Randi is still asking why no one (or many of them) are signing on to the impeachment bill; her answer?
The leadership knew and were complicit in the illegal/unconstitutional behavior.

I haven't listened to Randi since she came down with Hillaraphobia,
and it is nice to see her back on issues we can all get behind.
She's a uniter again :>)


That sentence in bold explains everything.
Did Pelosi and Reid give Bush their OK for his crimes?
Why else would they not want his crimes exposed?

Rumor has it Bush can't pardon anyone if impeachment is underway,
so maybe Pelosi and Reid might need a pardon when the truth comes out?

Is that why Pelosi is protecting Bush?


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"Whatever you need, Honey..."

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COATHANGER JUSTICE

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Judge’s Ban on the Use of the Word
“Rape” at Trial Reflects Trend

Saturday 07 June 2008

by: Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star

Protesters decry a Nebraska court’s ban on the use of the word “rape” in court. Such language bans are becoming an increasingly common practice.
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It’s the only way Tory Bowen knows to honestly describe what happened to her.

She was raped.

But a judge prohibited her from uttering the word “rape” in front of a jury. The term “sexual assault” also was taboo, and Bowen could not refer to herself as a victim or use the word “assailant” to describe the man who allegedly raped her.


The defendant’s presumption of innocence and right to a fair trial trumps Bowen’s right of free speech, said the Lincoln, Neb., judge who issued the order.

”It shouldn’t be up to a judge to tell me whether or not I was raped,” Bowen said. “I should be able to tell the jury in my own words what happened to me.”

Bowen’s case is part of what some prosecutors and victim advocates see as a national trend in sexual assault cases.

”It’s a topic that’s coming up more and more,” said Joshua Marquis, an Oregon prosecutor and a vice president of the National District Attorneys Association. “You’re moving away from what a criminal trial is really about.”

In Jackson County, Senior Judge Gene Martin recently issued a similar order for the trial of a Kansas City man charged with raping a teenager in 2000. Despite the semantic restrictions, the Jackson County jury last week found Ray Slaughter guilty of forcible rape and two counts of forcible sodomy.

Slaughter’s attorney, who requested the pretrial order, declined to comment because she is preparing a motion for new trial. The judge also declined to comment.

Bowen’s case gained national notoriety and drew the attention of free-speech proponents after she filed a lawsuit challenging the judge’s actions as a First Amendment violation. A federal appeals court dismissed the suit, but Bowen’s attorney plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court.

Although he dismissed her suit, a federal judge said he doubted a jury would be swayed by a woman using the word “rape” instead of some “tortured equivalent.”

”For the life of me, I do not understand why a judge would tell an alleged rape victim that she cannot say she was raped when she testifies in a trial about rape,” wrote U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf.

Wendy J. Murphy, an adjunct professor at the New England School of Law in Boston, is representing Bowen. She said the practice is “absolutely” unconstitutional.

”There’s no law anywhere that allows courts to issue these kinds of orders against private citizens,” Murphy said. “That doesn’t mean judges aren’t doing it.”

Prosecutors may object, but rarely do they have the time and resources to stop a trial midstream to appeal, she said.

But in cases where the defendant’s version of events is pitted against that of the alleged victim, “words are really important,” Marquis said.

”To force a victim to say, ‘when the defendant and I had sexual intercourse’ is just absurd,” he said.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar said juries are smart enough to understand that in the adversarial system of justice, the state is going to take one position and the defense is going to take another.

”These are common terms that are used both in and outside the courtroom,” he said. “If someone says something that one side feels is prejudicial, it can be addressed in cross-examination.”

The issue is a discretionary call with judges, said Jackson County Circuit Judge Brian C. Wimes, who did not preside over Slaughter’s trial. Wimes said he typically would not grant a pretrial order limiting certain words, but he would verbally tell the attorneys to avoid using words in a prejudicial or inflammatory way.

”You don’t want to create an unfair environment,” he said.

Those who defend the accused say the determination of whether what happened was rape or consensual sex is up to juries, not witnesses.

”They shouldn’t be able to use the word ‘rape’ as if it is a fact that has been established,” said Jack King, director of public affairs and communications for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “These are loaded words.”

But Bowen says there is nothing fair about allowing the defense to describe what happened as sex and forcing the victim to describe it in the same words, especially when jurors are not told that an order limiting speech is in place.

Bowen was a 21-year-old Nebraska college student in 2004 when, she said, someone incapacitated her with a rape drug. When she awoke, she was being raped, she said.

Though The Star typically does not name rape victims, Bowen agreed to have her name and photo used.

She said it’s hard enough to get up in front of 12 strangers and talk about what happened without having to worry about being found in contempt of court for saying the wrong thing.

”I think it’s unfortunate that I have to turn into a human thesaurus on the stand,” Bowen testified in a pretrial hearing.

Murphy said it’s disturbing that such “censorship orders” are entered almost exclusively in cases involving rape or sexual assault.

”If it’s about defendants’ rights, then why aren’t they used in other cases?” she asked.

Alison Jones-Lockwood with the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault said that there is a historical trend of doubting the word of a woman who says she was raped or questioning how she might have done something to put herself at risk.

She attributes that attitude in part to how the crime affects people’s sense of personal safety.

”If it happened to her, it could happen to me,” Jones-Lockwood said.

The jury in Bowen’s case deadlocked after one trial in 2006. The judge declared a mistrial because of pretrial publicity before a second trial in 2007.

Prosecutors dismissed the case before a third trial because of the judge’s orders on what words could be used and limits on evidence, including prior rape allegations against the defendant.

It would have come down to his word against hers, and as Bowen said, “The judge took my words away from me.”

”How can the jury make an educated decision?” she asked.

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CNN ran this picture of Bush about to tongue a Saudi prince.
What caught my eye is that yellow stuff that looks like corn!

Woo Hoo!
Fresh corn season is almost here!!

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'Wash Times': V.A. Using Iraq Vets as Guinea Pigs in Drug Tests

By Greg Mitchell

Published: June 17, 2008 1:10 PM ET

NEW YORK As if the "soldier suicide" problem wasn't bad enough already, word has just emerged from ABC News and The Washington Times that our government is testing drugs with severe side effects, including promoting suicidal behavior, on hundreds of vets.

In one case, the V.A. took three months to alert the veterans to the severe mental effects caused by one of the drugs, the controversial Chantix, used to halt smoking.

They are even using cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments "that often target distressed soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan," the newspaper puts it today.

The Chantix warning did not come "until after one of the veterans taking the drug had suffered a psychotic episode that ended in a near lethal confrontation with police," the Washington Times reports.

ABC aired an interview today with that man, James Elliott, an Army sharpshooter who suffers from PTSD after serving 15 months in Iraq.

"You're a lab rat for $30 a month," Elliott said.

Sen. Barack Obama has already offered a protest: "It is outrageous and unacceptable that our government would irresponsibly endanger veterans who have already sacrificed so much for our country. Our veterans - particularly those suffering from mental health injuries - should have the very best health care and support in the world, they should never be needlessly exposed to drugs without proper notification of the dangers involved or effective monitoring of the side effects. I will immediately be asking for a full and thorough investigation of how our government could yet again let down our veterans and their families who have given so much to their country, and who have paid so much for the failures of civilian leadership in Washington. It is time to demand accountability and to ensure that this kind of breach of trust never takes place again."

More from the Washington Times report follows.
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One of the nation's premier medical ethicists said the VA's behavior in the anti-smoking study violated basic protections for humans in medical experiments.

"When you're taking advantage of a very vulnerable population, people who have served the country, and the agency that's responsible for their welfare isn't putting their welfare first, that's a pretty serious breach of ethics," said Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

n all, nearly 1,000 veterans with PTSD were enrolled in the study to test different methods of ending smoking, with 143 using Chantix. Twenty-one veterans reported adverse effects from the drug, including one who suffered suicidal thoughts, the three-month investigation by The Times and ABC News found.

Mr. Caplan, who reviewed the consent and notification forms for the study at the request of The Times and ABC News, said the VA deserved an "F" and that it has an obligation to end the study, given the vulnerability of veterans with PTSD and the known side effects of Chantix. "Continuing it doesn't make any ethical sense," he said.

The VA continues to test Chantix on veterans, even as reported problems with the drug increase and have prompted at least one other federal agency to take action. On May 21, the Federal Aviation Administration banned airline pilots and air traffic control personnel from taking Chantix, citing the adverse side effects.

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Greg Mitchell's new book includes several chapters on soldier/vet suicides. It is So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed on Iraq.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003817362


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George Bush visit UK. STWC protest, Parliament Square, London, UK. 15/06/2008.

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Anti-war protesters gather in Parliament Square to express their disgust at the visit of US president George W Bush to the United Kingdom in order to 'alleviate' the legacy of his presidency. They gather in the Square, listen to speeches and then move toward Whitehall where they plan to go to Downing Street to make their voices heard. Metropolitan police officers gather in large numbers to stop them. The peaceful protest is then surrounded by over 1000 officers, a number of whom wear 'pro-war' insignia on their riot armour, and begin to brutally suppress the protest. They carry out a number of arrests throughout the early evening by 'snatching' members of the public at random. The operation is organised and planned by Labour's Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, who has now 'qualified' a long history of taking a violent approach to those who peacefully oppose the war. Parliament Square, London. 15th June 2008.

Protest Photography

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Protest photography these days is particularly relevant. Since 1999, the UK has seen an explosion of collective groups taking matters into their own hands. From Anti-globalisation and Anti-capitalism through to the protests against the US invoked, and British complicit, 'Squalid War' in Iraq. The idealism and momentum of protest has never been more pertinent. This last decade has seen some of the largest and most consistent protests ever to take place in the United Kingdom. The following set is an example of editorial protest photography and images taken over the past decade in the UK.

Please visit this site:

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is confused by Britain's Finance Minister Alistair Darling’s comment on the U.S. Economy during the G8 Finance Ministers Meeting in Osaka June 14, 2008.


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Hamas 'Minister': Rice is a 'Serpent-Cobra'

"Condoleezza Rice, you are not welcome. Every proud Palestinian views you as a murderer,
and sees the blood of the children of Palestine between your lips and on your fangs. I pray to
Allah that you will soon slither away, along with your master who is more Zionist than the Zionists,
that criminal murderer, little Bush, who is striving to fan the flames in this region."
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"Women get dazzled over diamonds, they really do.
They like diamonds like I like my hi-def TV."
-- Der vulgar Pigboy, trying to make sense


Rush, with all your hundreds of millions of dollars,
you still can't bribe a woman to be your wife so yeah,
you're out of the diamond business forever.

By the way Rush, you've had sex with women, men, children and goats.
Which of your victims fought you the hardest?


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Clear Channel Bans Ads For Harry Shearer's CD Over Anti-Bush Image

Huffington Post | June 27, 2008 08:46 AM

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Clear Channel, the radio station and billboard powerhouse, has banned an ad for Harry Shearer's new CD "Songs of Bushmen" because it depicts George Bush with a bone through his nose, the New York Post's Page Six reports:

The outdoor advertising arm of notoriously conservative Clear Channel has banned signs for "Songs of the Bushmen" because the cover depicts the president with a bone through his nose. "Their tone turned from genial salesperson to angry schoolmarm - 'This is unacceptable,' " Shearer, the voice of Mr. Burns and Flanders on "The Simpsons," told Page Six. "And it's not like this is a dangerous time to criticize George Bush."
Last October, Clear Channel's Palm Beach arm refused to air an ad for VoteVets during Rush Limbaugh's show because the ad "would conflict with the listeners who have chosen to listen to Rush Limbaugh."

Disclosure: The ad is running on the Huffington Post, and Harry Shearer is a regular contributor to the site.

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Mandela no longer biggest terrorist on earth


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United States has removed former South African president Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress from a three-decade old immigration watch list for possible terrorists, the White House said Tuesday.

In time for the anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner’s 90th birthday on July 18, President George W. Bush signed a bill Tuesday which effectively ended a system in which Mandela had to get special certification from the US secretary of state that he is not a terrorist in order to visit the United States.

Mandela won the Nobel peace price in 1993, and was president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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