Are We Headed For Martial Law?

What would These Soldiers Say About The Matter?

I found a good article written by Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson with The Washington Post. It is dated for Monday, December 1, 2008 which says the U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.

Washington Post Link

The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said.

There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement.

But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, dedicating 20,000 troops to domestic response -- a nearly sevenfold increase in five years -- "would have been extraordinary to the point of unbelievable," Paul McHale, assistant defense secretary for homeland defense, said in remarks last month at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. But the realization that civilian authorities may be overwhelmed in a catastrophe prompted "a fundamental change in military culture," he said.

I am more concerned about Martial Law being imposed in light of the precarious financial situation we are finding ourselves in. Civil unrest can so easily become civil disobedience and rioting.

The Pentagon's plan calls for three rapid-reaction forces to be ready for emergency response by September 2011. The first 4,700-person unit, built around an active-duty combat brigade based at Fort Stewart, Ga., was available as of Oct. 1, said Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of the U.S. Northern Command.

If funding continues, two additional teams will join nearly 80 smaller National Guard and reserve units made up of about 6,000 troops in supporting local and state officials nationwide. All would be trained to respond to a domestic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive attack, or CBRNE event, as the military calls it.

Why don't we just bring our National Guards home from the two war fronts? That would reduce the strain on them immensely. Or how about replace them with more soldiers and send our 'weekend warriors home to their families.

Military preparations for a domestic weapon-of-mass-destruction attack have been underway since at least 1996, when the Marine Corps activated a 350-member chemical and biological incident response force and later based it in Indian Head, Md., a Washington suburb. Such efforts accelerated after the Sept. 11 attacks, and at the time Iraq was invaded in 2003, a Pentagon joint task force drew on 3,000 civil support personnel across the United States.

In 2005, a new Pentagon homeland defense strategy emphasized "preparing for multiple, simultaneous mass casualty incidents." National security threats were not limited to adversaries who seek to grind down U.S. combat forces abroad, McHale said, but also include those who "want to inflict such brutality on our society that we give up the fight," such as by detonating a nuclear bomb in a U.S. city.

(cont'd on link.)

Detroit Comes Back To Congress

The Detroit automakers have been lumped together for decades as the Big Three, and for good reason; their goals have usually been aligned.

But this week, as the automakers take a second run at Congress, hoping to persuade lawmakers to give them $25 billion in federal aid, their agendas are diverging as they contemplate futures as drastically different car companies.

This is where we need to pay close attention and be prepared to call our Congresscritters.

General Motors, the biggest of the troubled car companies, is expected to propose a significant shrinking of its North American operations, including shutting more factories and streamlining its sprawling brand lineup, according to people with knowledge of G.M.’s deliberations.



One move under discussion, for example, would have G.M. buy out dealers that exclusively sell Saturns and market the cars through its Buick-Pontiac-GMC dealers instead, according to these people.

G.M. is also likely to propose moves that would require cooperation from the United Automobile Workers union, including delaying the company’s $7 billion payment to the union’s retiree health care fund.

The Ford Motor Company, however, is not likely to propose more cuts, as it is further along than Chrysler and G.M. in shifting to a more fuel-efficient lineup of vehicles. It also has more cash to weather the downturn. Instead, people with knowledge of Ford’s strategy say the automaker is considering more symbolic moves, including reducing the pay of its chief executive, Alan R. Mulally, who earned more than $21 million last year.



The third automaker, Chrysler, which is privately owned, has acknowledged it is running out of cash and may tell Congress that it needs a merger or alliance with another company to survive long term.


The U.A.W., whose members build cars for all three companies, is not involved in developing any of the plans, even though its political influence is a crucial factor in whether a bailout gets approved.

On Tuesday, G.M., Ford and Chrysler are scheduled to deliver separate aid requests to lawmakers, who will hold hearings on the plans later in the week.

The critical components in each of the plans will be how the companies expect to spend their share of the money, and what changes each automaker will make to shore up their faltering operations.


What I cannot desern in any of the proposals is how it will keep Americans employed. These look like temporary plans with a lot of variables and excuses for sticking it first to the American taxpayers first, and then the American workers second. Do they honestly think we cannot see the writing on the wall? ...And for this we should give them $25 Billion Dollars? Not so fast boyz.

Star Gazing

Sky Watch:

This week brings the climax to the pairing of the brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, in the evening sky. This spectacle is best seen at about 6:00 p.m., when the two planets are about 17 degrees above the southwest horizon. Jupiter is nearly 5 degrees to the upper left of brighter Venus on Wednesday night, the 26th. They continue to draw closer until they reach conjunction, their closest approach to each other, on Sunday night, November 30. The planets are then separated by just over two degrees. The grouping is made even more spectacular by the presence of the slender crescent moon, just 7 degrees below the planets. This trio will be at their most attractive on the next night, Monday, December 3, with Jupiter 2.2 degrees to the right of Venus, and the moon only 4 degrees to the upper right of the pair. On following nights, Jupiter will appear farther from Venus, moving down and to the right. The planets set at about 7:40 p.m.

This conjunction is simply a chance alignment of objects separated by tens and hundreds of millions of miles—they are not actually close to each other in space. At the time of the conjunction, the moon is about 240,000 miles from us, Venus is the same distance from us as the sun, 93 million miles, and Jupiter is about as far away as it can be from us, 539 million miles.

Later at night, the brightest star of the night time sky, Sirius, in Canis Major the Big Dog, sparkles 40 degrees high in the south at 2:00 a.m. Located to the south east of the belt of Orion, Sirius rises in the south east just before 9 p.m., and is low in the south west before dawn.

Saturn, in Leo the Lion, rises in the east half an hour after midnight, and is well placed for telescopic viewing in the south east in the early morning hours, attaining a height of 54 degrees above the horizon when dawn starts at 5:11 a.m. The planet is now providing the best views of its nearly edge-on rings that will be visible until the year 2025.

India and Pakistan - Unfinished Business?

In our country when something like 9-11 happens, we re-elect and promote those individuals who were on watch. In India, they resign, as they should. What a novel idea. You fail to do your job, you lose it. India's Home Minister Shivraj Patil submitted his resignation Sunday as the country investigated alleged Pakistani ties to the terrorist attacks that killed 183 people in Mumbai.

Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil resigned after the terror attacks in Mumbai, many in India are calling their 9-11. The Indian government is considering suspending the five-year-old cease-fire with Pakistan and perhaps even ending the dialogue process with the country.

Officials say they found telephones and a global navigational device on an abandoned boat floating off the coast of Mumbai that was used by the terrorists, CNN-IBN reported. The television network showed photographs of a phone's call log that revealed calls had been placed to Pakistan. Things are going to heat up between these two nuclear powers. Sadly, terrorism has taken center stage in the world. Let us hope for calm heads and clear thinking.

Barack Obama's Weekly Address - Thanksgiving

'Walmart Shoppers Acted Like Savages'

"Walmart Shopppers acted like savages" said Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede at a Walmart Store in New York on Black Friday. Adding a dark new meaning to the word term, 'Black Friday', when retailers are suppose to start making a profit during the year. Ms. Cribbs added that, When the shoppers were told they would have to leave because an employee was killed, people were yelling,'I've been on liine since yesterday morning', and they kept shopping. Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him.

New York Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down.

Criminal charges were possible, but identifying individual shoppers in Friday's video may prove difficult, said Detective Lt. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman.

This is so sick and wrong on so many levels. That is why I do not go shopping on Black Friday. How can anyone think that the next great purchase is worth a human life.

Terrorist Attacks In Mumbai, India

Palin Pardons a Turkey - Just Not The Turkeys in The Video

Put Sarah Palin in front of a camera and she fails to disappoint. This is brutal footage. But hey this lady shoots animals out of helicopters. What do you expect? Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Honda Clarity Burns Hydrogen

Honda Clarity Burns Hydrogen, Emits Only Water:

It’s not every day we get to see our possible futures in a car of tomorrow. After all, the question of what will power future automobiles is a guessing game, with candidates ranging from electricity and compressed natural gas to hydrogen fuel cells. We could be driving anything. Since I am a Honda owner now I wanted to see what tomorrow might look like with a Honda.

Honda made an expensive bet in that guessing game by designing the hydrogen-powered FCX Clarity. It’s costly (perhaps $500,000 each to produce), yet the sedan emits only water.

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK

Both Honda and Chevy are testing fuel-cell vehicles by making them available for lease by select customers. Hydrogen’s big upside is its cleanliness and ability to be produced from many sources, even water and human waste.

Fuel-cell stacks are akin to mini power stations in which the chemical energy of hydrogen and oxygen is converted into electricity, which then powers an electric motor. Since hydrogen is a gas, it’s stored under pressure in reinforced tanks.

In the Clarity’s case, hydrogen is delivered as pressurized gas, and one kilogram is roughly equivalent to one gallon of gas. Over 200 miles in the day, I average 55 miles per “gallon.” Yet the tank only holds about four kilograms of hydrogen, and if you run out, a flatbed truck is in your immediate future.

Only in California

The Clarity has its own production line, which over the next three years will put out some 200 cars. Only Southern California customers are currently getting them since the state has the most hydrogen stations. Customers are pre-vetted, and leases cost $600 a month for three years, including maintenance and insurance. (So far, only a few have been delivered.) Honda is obviously not making money on the project, but it does suggest a certain seriousness.

New York won’t see the Clarity soon. General Motors Corp., though, is offering its fuel-cell Chevy Equinox SUV at no cost to some 100 drivers in New York, Southern California and Washington, D.C. New York drivers can use a Shell station in White Plains.

The Clarity was expressly designed as a fuel-cell vehicle, and the result is an elegant and handsome four-door sedan. With no big engine in the front, the hood and overhang are quite short and offset by a raked windshield. The Clarity is basically one long swoop, with a high back trunk to minimize air drag. Futuristic, though not aggressively so.

It looks like a real car, too. The test version has a metallic burgundy paint job, attractive wheel rims and an interior that would make any Honda owner proud, with GPS navigation, cooled and heated seats and tons of room.

Electronic gauges monitor gas mileage, hydrogen levels and range, and how much power is recaptured while braking (a technology shared with hybrids). A small circle at the center expands and contracts depending on how much power is being used -- an intuitive way of gauging how efficiently you’re driving.

Fueling is easy as one just inserts a narrow hose onto a nozzle inside the car’s gas latch and then turn a locking lever. It’s a “closed system,” so the hydrogen neither leaks nor releases fumes. The pump performs a check of the pressure inside the car’s hydrogen chamber, then begins fueling.

No doubt hydrogen technology has a long way to go to become practical, yet if the Clarity is any indication, the actual process of driving and refueling could be a painless one.


The Honda FCX Clarity at a Glance

-Engine: Fuel-cell stack and electric drive motor, with 134 horsepower and 189 pound-feet of torque.
-Transmission: One-speed direct drive.
-Speed: 0 to 60 miles per hour in about 10 seconds.
as mileage per kilogram: 77 city; 67 highway.
-Best features: Emits only water but drives like a gas-fueled car.
-Worst feature: The fear of running out of hydrogen and being stranded.
-Target buyer: The true environmental front runner (who also lives in Southern California for the time being.)

To My Patriots - A Thanks

I was doing research this weekend and I came across the actual document that one of my Great-Great-Great Grandfathers signed August 2, 1775, yeah, in 1775. He came from Ireland as did his father, William Alexander McClintock in 1763.

It is an Oath of Allegiance in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania and I want to frame it. It means that much.

It says:

"I, Joseph McClintock, do swear or affirm that I renounce and refuse all allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain, his heirs and successors: and that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a free and independent State, and that I will not at any time do or cause to or cause to be done any matter or thing that will be prejudicial or injurious to the freedom and independence thereof, as declared by Congress, and, also, that I will discover and make known to some justice of the peace of the said State all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which I now know or hereafter shall
know or hereafter shall know to be formed against or any of the United States of America."

I found this on Sunday in the archives of Pennsylvania. It is so hard to express how powerful these words are to me. It really took a lot of salt to do this. I am forever grateful to all my ancestors for standing up to British Tyranny.
My deepest thanks to all the Patriots in my family. There are at least 11 that I have proven. To each of you I acknowledge the great sacrifice that was made so that we might all be free.

Your Grandaughter

Guy Fawks Would Love This One

The government has begun a new program,claiming it will help fight terrorism and illegal immigration, despite criticism from opposition parties and civil liberties groups who argue that ID cards threaten individual privacy.

Those thought most likely to abuse the immigration system, individuals applying for marriage or student visas, will be the first to apply for the cards, which will be issued from later this week.

Government ministers say that within three years, all new workers from outside the European Economic Area will have ID cards, with 90 percent coverage by 2014.

"In time identity cards for foreign nationals will replace paper documents and give employers a safe and secure way of checking a migrant's right to work and study in the UK," Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said.

The documents will feature the holder's name and date of birth, their visa status and right to work, as well as a photograph, fingerprint record, and other biometric data. Workers in airports and other high-security jobs will have to carry them from next year.

Anyone applying for a British passport from 2011 will be automatically added to a national identity database, but citizens will not be forced to obtain ID cards.

In Britian, Big Brother is watching you.

In addition to civil liberties concerns, the ID card scheme has been particularly hurt by a string of losses by the government of sensitive data, most notably the loss of 25 million Britons' personal information by a government agency last year.
The losses prompted concerns about the ability of the authorities to manage vast databanks of private information.

Unlike its continental European neighbours, Britain has never had a mandatory ID card scheme other than during wartime, but the idea has gathered momentum since suicide bombings in London in July 2005 that left 56 dead. Do you see how fear is being used to gain the population acceptance of an invasion of their lives? What do you think? Should the United States have a National I.D. Card? It has been suggested. Would you be for or against it?

CTA's Holiday Homeless Harassment

During the past few weeks of waning daylight, waxing chill, and growing holiday spirit, the Chicago Transit Authority has been busy installing
NEW SIGNAGE at rail terminals on the CTA 'L'. The message on the signs--an example of which appears above--is clear, and a bit ominous: they demand an additional fare from any rider who wants to depart the terminal in the opposite direction from which they arrived. So don't miss your stop. If you smell bad they will think you are homeless and write you up! With the growing economic problems for our country, the number of homeless riding the buses and transit will only increase all over the country as people are looking for warmth.

It Fell From The Heavens

The Canadian Prairie is still buzzing about a giant fireball that roared across the sky last night and slammed into the earth with a bright flash. Those police dash-cams are good for something ~snark
Read more about it Here

Remembering John F. Kennedy Today

On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.

Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.

Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12,
1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.

In 1956 Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for President. Millions watched his television debates with the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Winning by a narrow margin in the popular vote, Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President.

His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II; before his death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.

Responding to ever more urgent demands, he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society.

President Obama's Weekly Address - Nov 22, 2008

Moving Up The Inaguration

MOVING UP THE INAUGURATION?.... The New York Times' Gail Collins has a good idea in her column this morning: maybe Bush could do us a favor and just wrap things up now.

Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning.

Seriously. We have an economy that's crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush -- who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no longer care what he thinks -- hasn't got the clout, or possibly even the energy, to do anything useful. His most recent contribution to resolving the fiscal crisis was lecturing representatives of the world's most important economies on the glories of free-market capitalism.

Putting Barack Obama in charge immediately isn't impossible. Dick Cheney, obviously, would have to quit as well as Bush. In fact, just to be on the safe side, the vice president ought to turn in his resignation first. (We're desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20. Obviously, she'd defer to her party's incoming chief executive, and Barack Obama could begin governing.

As a bonus, the Pelosi presidency would put a woman in the White House this year after all. On the downside, a few right-wing talk-show hosts might succumb to apoplexy. That would, of course, be terrible, but I'm afraid we might have to take the risk in the name of a greater good.

Can I see a show of hands? How many people want George W. out and Barack in?

Works for me. I'm not sure Obama would want this -- he'd no doubt like to take the allotted time to complete the transition process -- but these are tough times and we all have to make sacrifices.

In this policy climate, a month is a long time. Just hand Obama the keys already.

Update: Brian Beutler seems to approve of the concept, but has a different idea on the mechanism: "How about this sequence of events instead: 1). Condoleezza Rice resigns as Secretary of State. 2). George Bush appoints Barack Obama in her place. 3). George Bush and Dick Cheney resign their positions (or get kicked out by the Congress). 4). Both Nancy Pelosi and Robert Byrd refuse to adhere to the chain of succession. 5). Obama becomes president. It would all take a couple days, and could go down smoothly so long as Obama and his cabinet picks were ready to hit the ground running."

Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays

If you mean Merry Christmas...then say it. It is not suppose to be a political statement. It is suppose to be a blessing.

WSJ columnist blames financial crisis on the War on Christmas.

In his Wall Street Journal column today, Daniel Henninger argues that the “unprecedented economic ruin” that many Americans are facing is a casualty of the War on Christmas because “a nation whose people can’t say ‘Merry Christmas’ is a nation capable of ruining its own economy”:

Notwithstanding the cardboard Santas who seem to have arrived in stores this year near Halloween, the holiday season starts in seven days with Thanksgiving. And so it will come to pass once again that many people will spend four weeks biting on tongues lest they say “Merry Christmas” and perchance, give offense. Christmas, the holiday that dare not speak its name.

This is bullshit. If you want to say it, grow a pair and just say it. Say it like you mean it, that might be the changed America needs for once

This year we celebrate the desacralized “holidays” amid what is for many unprecedented economic ruin — fortunes halved, jobs lost, homes foreclosed. People wonder, What happened? One man’s theory: A nation whose people can’t say “Merry Christmas” is a nation capable of ruining its own economy.

WTF?

After cataloging a series of complex economic factors that do relate to the financial crisis, Henninger concludes that what really went wrong is that “the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America” led to “subprime personal behavior by borrowers and bankers.”

Begin vomiting now. Big Babies.

President-elect Obama's Inauguration

Some reports estimate up to 4 million people will watch the historic event. But they for those who are planning on being there, they will be facing intense scrutiny.

Law enforcement officials bracing for the largest crowds in inaugural history are preparing far-reaching security — thousands of video cameras, sharpshooters, air patrols — to safeguard President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in.

People attending the ceremony and parade on Jan. 20 can expect to be searched by machines, security personnel or both. Precautions will range from the routine — magnetometers like those used at airports — to countersnipers trained to hit a target the size of a teacup saucer from 1,000 yards away. Plus undercover officers, bomb sniffing dogs and air patrols.

Sarah Palin vs.The Turkey

I saw this on the news last night and almost couldn't believe what I was watching.

Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey yesterday at a turkey hatchery. After that she gave a press conference right in front of a man who was killing and draining the blood out of turkeys. You have to watch this. (they blurred the really gory parts.)

Palin is such a turkey!



She was asked if the background was okay for her interview. She said, 'Ah shucks, sure it is.'
Would someone tell this woman that there are children watching T.V. pleaase.

Palin never fails to surprise or entertain us with her stupidity.

Stephen Colbert Gets Vetted

Stephen is at his usual self as he tries to go through a 'vetting process' to work for The Obama Administration.

Show us your PLAN: We will show you the MONEY

Democratic leaders conceded defeat with the three big automakers Thursday of a proposed bailout of the U.S. auto industry but left open the possibility of Congress returning in December to consider an aid package.

Weeks of negotiations and intense lobbying by the auto industry failed to resolve partisan differences over whether and how to rescue Detroit's beleaguered auto makers, two of which are feared to be on the brink of bankruptcy.

Democratic leaders said many lawmakers still had grave doubts about whether the auto makers were too weak to be saved. And public anger about the prospect of another taxpayer-funded rescue of corporations appeared to play a major role in the defeat.

"The sad reality is that no one has come up with a plan that can pass the House and Senate and get signed by President Bush," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters.

He alluded to public resentment toward the chief executives of General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC. That resentment was likely stirred by hours of testimony during which the auto executives came under criticism for everything from their companies' investment in SUVs to the executives' decision to fly to Washington in expensive corporate jets.

Many lawmakers were unconvinced that the executives could turn their companies around.

"The executives of the auto companies have not been able to convince the Congress and the American people that this government bailout will be its last," Sen. Reid said.

"Until they show us the plan, we cannot show them the money," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said

Automotive Industry: North vs.South

Should taxpayers in Alabama be required to bail out automakers whose plants are concentrated in Northern states like Michigan and Ohio?

Are you Americans? The answer to this ought to be obvious. This pisses me off. I see this kind of talk when I go back to the corporate office for the company I work for in Tennessee. When the V.P. of Marketing opened the meeting with, "People, there may come a time when the 'Southern' operations secedes from the 'North.' I damn near fell off my chair. I know my mouth was wide open. These people really don't get it. They lost the Civil War. Bury your dead and move on. My family fought on both sides as did many during that era. This mentality is part of what is so divisive in our country.

So here we have Southern Congressman up on the hill spouting this lunacy. During bipartisan accords — at least two of Alabama’s representatives in Congress put this crap out for consumption of 'an angry, we didn't get our candidate elected, racist South.'

BTW guys, racism exists everywhere. Y'all just do it with so much panache!

Okay, so, Alabama is home to three Honda and Hyundai plants. And just across the state line in Georgia, a new Kia plant is set to open and will likely employ many Alabamans. Be glad you have a job. Remember you are Americans first.

IN A RELATED STORY:
It's the end of an era -- Michigan Democrat John Dingell has been officially toppled from his post as head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

In a secret ballot, Dingell was voted out by the Democrats 137-122 and replaced with Rep. Henry Waxman, a notable critic and aggressive investigator of the Bush Administration as chairman of the House Oversight Committee.

It is about time.

The vote is a victory for environmentalists and a huge new blow for the US auto industry. Dingell was one of the auto industry's biggest supporters -- his wife Debbie is a lobbyist for General Motors and is a descendant of the founding family --
and a consistent for of tighter fuel efficiency standards for automobiles.

Oh there is More...


General Motors CEO Richard Wagoner, Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli and Ford CEO Alan Mulally plead for a taxpayer loan at a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

It certainly didn't help their cause any when they each flew in on different planes from their own corporate fleets. I mean really guys, you come to Washington like beggars and arrive at a cost of $20,000 each for the flights. What? You couldn't 'carpool?' This is just the level of stupidity we are dealing with when it comes to the auto industry here in the United States. Bad business wanting money while bringing threats with them when they come begging.


Next time you come begging for money, fly together! You smucks!

Don't expect us to pick up after you if you do. When is big business going to learn. They will be allowed to become extinct like the dinosaurs, if they don't evolve.

G-20 al la Jon Stewart

The G20 Summit is not some evil world domination conspiracy, despite members toasting over $500 bottles of wine at a long banquet table.

Huckabee and The Right Wing Agenda

Huckabee Claims Civil Rights Of Gays Are Not Being Violated: They Aren’t Getting Their ‘Skulls Cracked’


Forward to minute 4:49 in the video to hear comments.

Today on ABC’s “The View,” former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabe discussed his pride that an African-American has been elected president. When host Joy Behar asked if he feels the same about gay rights, he said that the two were “a different set of rights,” and suggested that the gay rights movement hasn’t suffered enough violence to be a real issue:

HUCKABEE: It’s a different set of rights. People who are homosexuals should have every right in terms of their civil rights, to be employed, to do anything they want. But that’s not really the issue. I know you talked about it and I think you got into it a little bit early on. But when we’re talking about a redefinition of an institution, that’s different than individual civil rights.

Slavery was an institution too Mr. Huckabee.

President George Bush Flies The Bird At America

President Bush is making laws faster than President-elect Obama can promise to rescind them.

See ya, I'm off to piss in the Rose Garden!

From The Huffington Post:

President Bush is pushing through a ruling that will make it more difficult for women to get contraceptives. The loosening of restrictions makes it easier for health care workers to conscientiously object to filling birth control prescriptions and the like. The ruling also enjoys the support of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which pretty much says it all.

Aides to President-elect Obama said he would try to rescind the ruling once he takes office, but that the process that could take three to six months. President Bush is also sticking his pals in cush civil service jobs, and looking at giving himself a pardon.

What other last minute Bush laws is Obama going to have to undo?

The "Dick Cheney Cannot Be Prosecuted" Law
This extends Vice President Cheney's immunity all the way through Jan 20, 2010. The extension gives him one year from Obama's inauguration to wrap up any war crimes that are still left in his system.

The Roe-troactive Abortion Ruling
This law prohibits all abortions, retroactively, even if you've never had one. If you've ever or never had an abortion, you will be prosecuted.

The 9/11 Hijacker Dual Citizenship Law
This law confers posthumous Iraqi citizenship on all the 9/11 hijackers, thus making the reasoning behind the Iraq War about 50% more plausible.

The Blackwaturburton Law
This law deregulates the mercenary industry, allowing Halliburton and Blackwater to merge into one special ops superarmy, Blackwaturburton, which will be able to interfere with elections right here in America, instead of always going overseas.

The We're Actually Making Terrorists Stronger Law
This law looks at various enhanced interrogation techniques employed at Gitmo and rules that if it didn't kill you, it made you stronger.

The Well, Maybe You Were Weak to Begin With Law
A corollary to The We're Actually Making Terrorists Stronger Law, this law states that anyone who did die during enhanced interrogation was weak and probably going to get diabetes or something anyway.

The This Never Happened Law
This law states that not only did Al Gore win the 2000 election, but he also beat Jeb Bush in 2004. So when you look at it that way, the last eight years never happened, so get off George's back.

Previously: Bush has two regrets; We provide the other 37

From the Room: Face to Bush: The Exit Interview

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P.S. Don't travel abroad George.

Will Hatred Reign in America?

A Storm is coming, the ugly kind. In an election in which barely 20 percent of native Southern whites in Deep South states voted for Obama, the newly apparent political clout of "outsiders" and people of color has been unnerving to some.

But postelection, at least two white nationalist websites – Stormfront and the Council of Conservative Citizens – report their servers have crashed because of heavy traffic. The League of the South, a secessionist group, says Web hits jumped from 50,000 a month to 300,000 since Nov. 4, and its phones are ringing off the hook.


A Map of The Historical South

"The vitriol is flailing out shotgun-style," says Mr. Levin. "They recognize Obama as a tipping point, the perfect storm in the narrative of the hate world – the apocalypse that they've been moaning about has come true."

Supremacist propaganda is already on the upswing. In Oklahoma, fringe groups have distributed anti-Obama propaganda through newspapers and taped it to home mail boxes. Ugly incidents such as cross-burnings, assassination betting pools, and Obama effigies are also being reported from Maine to Alabama.



"In states like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, there was extraordinary racial polarization in the vote," says Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta. "Black Americans really do believe that Obama is going to represent their interests and views in ways that they haven't been before, and, in the Deep South, whites feel exactly the opposite."

But for nonviolent secessionist groups like the League of the South, the hope is for a more vigorous debate about the direction of the US and the South's role in it, says Michael Tuggle, a League blogger in North Carolina.

Mr. Tuggle says his group isn't looking for an 1860-style secession but, rather, a model that Spain, for one, is moving toward, in which "there's a great deal of autonomy for constituent regions" – a foil to what is seen as unchecked, dangerous federal power in Washington.

"To a lot of people, the idea of secession doesn't seem so crazy anymore," says Tuggle. "People are talking about how left out they feel, ... and they feel that something strange and radical has taken over our country."

I am just dying to know if they actually voted. If you didn't then shut the F-k up.
If you did, grow a pair, your candidate lost. Get over it.



We must fight Racism in this country.

To these people, I say...grow up. Evolve now, or you may not have anything to pass on to your children. It is well known that throughout time, which economic pressures are at the forefront. People tend to attack those they feel are different and ideas they do not understand. Today, I passed a man driving a big Chevy truck. The bumper stickers on his back window, next to his gun rack said. "Impeach Obama."

The man is not even the President yet? Impeach him you say...really? What kind of a delusional man are you?

This is not the America, I am proud of.