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Riddle Me this, You Conservative Bloggers 2007-04-04 12:41:00 Vice President Cheney always bad mouth anyone who talks against the war in Iraq... he's always making the talking points in favor of this President .I guess you would say, that's what a Vice President is suppose to do.Now let me ask you this; How can this Vice President say that we are sending the troops the wrong message, when we speak out against the war in Iraq or if we speak out against this President?Riddle
me this--- what kind of message is this Vice President sending the troops in Iraq and at Walter Reed, when he never even bothered to make a trip there to visit our wounded?Can you name or show me any evidence, where this Vice President is shown at Walter Reed with our wounded?What say you?
The White House And Conservative News Show Try To Smear Pelosi's Trip 2007-04-03 02:30:00 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
is being smeared by The White
House for her impending visit to Damascus. Bill Kristol repeated the attack on Fox news.The White House accused Sen. Pelosi of failing to heed the administration's admonitions against traveling to Damascus.Now we find out that three Republicans, were in Syria yesterday and not a word from the White House or Kristol.Sunday, Reps. Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts and Robert Aderholt met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus... These men are Republicans, so what's the problem here America?Conservatives are so quick to say bad things about MSM, but constantly follow this White House of lies and the conservative talking points. Read more:House
Bush Filling Up Valhalla 2007-04-11 10:46:00 For the surge our President implemented to protect the new 104 acres embassy being built in Iraq.The Valhalla, should be full very soon, because a proposal to extend the tour of duty for every active duty soldier in Iraq by three (3), months is waiting for approval.The fortress-like compound rising beside the Tigris River in Bagdad will be the largest of its kind in the world, the size of Vatican City, with the population of a small town.We are not intending to leave Iraq, not when BP and Shell in Britain, and Exxon and Chevron in the US, will be signing deals of up to 30 years to extract Iraq’s oil and live in the new embassy that is being built to house them.There's no way this President will agree to bring our soldiers home anytime soon, they are needed to insure the safety and protection of the new embassy and oil that will be flowing out of Iraq.The surge will probably go on through all of this year and into 08, with no let up on the all volunteer service.This Preisdent shows a
How To Not Be Fooled Again 2007-04-12 06:57:00 Resisting the Drums of WarThis President is a very cogent man and my indignation of him, makes this video necessary to keep our Congress and the American people aware of his idiosyncrasy and what he has done to this country, with the help of the Republican party and those that still believe his lies. Read more:Again
Why I Started To Share My Thoughts 2007-04-16 19:33:00 I was once content with writing programs, surfing the net and reading a few blogs. I notice while reading blogs, more than 90 percent were conservatives, giving their opinion and being mean spirit about any thing and any one that did not agree with them or have the same view that they had.When I first started to blog, I tried to be somewhat in the middle and just let others give their opinion on what I talked about. The problem with doing that, brought on the same thing that I had been reading, when I just went to other blogs.Mostly conservatives, giving opinions that I didn't agree with and I wondered, where in the world are the Democrats and the Independants?Since I found very few people to stand up to some of the junk that some conservatives were saying. I just decided to just give my own opinion on how I felt about things and low and behold, all I hear, in a nasty way are conservatives, saying all kind of things to me.Let me just say this, BRING IT ON! I'm an ex-Marine and I know Read more:Share
You Can Not Deter Me 2007-04-19 19:45:00 The other day I got a very bad review on my blog and I just wanted some type of input to improve it.I sit here now thinking that most folks know why I blog, I just said so recently.I love the fact that I can come to my site and see that I have comments, maybe from snave, who writes as if I'm sitting there telling him how I feel about a situation. His writing is just what I would love to say, but can't put into words as he does, so I enjoy his read.I like it when I make a point and tom harper comes in and make's it even better, then I go to his site and find out about something that I didn't know about.Right now at Political Relm, I can go there and get information on just about whom ever is running for President.All the sites that I link to have great information and I love to read what they are talking about.When I rant here at Let's Talk, I'm excited that when I go to my comment section there's great comments and information there waiting for me to consume.So as long as I can Read more:Deter
Republicans Hailed Medicare Part D negotiation Bill Vote A Victory For Seniors 2007-04-18 21:59:00 Senate Republicans
blocked the Medicare Part D negotiation bill that would allow the government to negotiate drug prices for the Medicare prescription drug benefit and they called it a victory for the Seniors
.The bill would have allowed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make deals with the pharmaceutical industry.Our Congress had already passed a stronger version, which would have made negotiations mandatory.President Bush said that he would veto either version of the bill if they came to him.Just who is this a victory for and why? Read more:Hailed
, Victory
3 Points For Effort 2007-04-18 21:59:00 My blog was reviewed today by So Many Blogs, So Little Time and they hated my blog!My Template was "Plain but acceptable. The header picture is a heavily pixelated and distorted fragment of Michelangelo's treasured painting from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He claims to be a computer geek so I would expect him to be able to display a masterpiece like this in a better manner. The rest of the colors are easy on the eyes but anti-climactic."My critic; "it's a political blog with some health thrown into the mix, at least in the early days of it's existence. Interesting mix of content. I think most of the recent posts are all political though. Fun...a blog about hating President Bush and everything that is wrong with this country. Number one, I hate politics. I am not going to delve into those reasons right now because it's not about me, it's about this man's blog. Number two, I hate reading political blogs, because of reason number one. However, this needs to be objective and f Read more:Points
, Effort
Shooter Had To Be A Liberal 2007-04-20 06:28:00 According to Rush Limbaugh the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shootings "had to be a liberal," He even had the nerve to say Democrats are the people sponsoring lies and distortion for the purposes of dividing this country and creating hatred.What is wrong with the people in this country, have we lost all sense and compassion? Read more:Shooter
, Liberal
Earth Day and Global Warming 2007-04-23 07:35:00 Sunday was Earth
Day and almost all politicians had their view on how to slow down global warming.I still cant understand what Karl Rove was ranting when he said to Laurie David and Sheryl Crow that China was not doing enough thus neither should we.The (IPCC) has issued its report on global warming Download SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS.Since the theory is that human actions are causing the planet to heat to this catastrophic degree, what then can we do to reverse it? Read more:Global
, Earth Day
Say It Ant So George 2007-04-29 06:10:00 See Original StoryAccording to the Washington Post, While television sets worldwide showed images of New Orleans residents begging to be rescued from rooftops as floodwaters rose, U.S. officials turned down countless offers of allied troops and search-and-rescue teams. The most common responses: "sent letter of thanks" and "will keep offer on hand," the new documents show.Overall, the United States declined 54 of 77 recorded aid offers from three of its staunchest allies: Canada, Britain and Israel, according to a 40-page State Department table of the offers that had been received as of January 2006.You've just got to read this story to believe it...In one exchange, State Department officials anguished over whether to tell Italy that its shipments of medicine, gauze and other medical supplies spoiled in the elements for weeks after Katrina's landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, and were destroyed. "Tell them we blew it," one disgusted official wrote. But she hedged: "The flip side is just to d Read more:George
What's your Opinion 2007-04-29 02:09:00 I watched a video called Unarmed Civilians and all I had was questions about what went on before the shooting started and who were the people in the two cars that passed by and how were they involved? I next went to a site where a true Republican gave his honest opinion about this war and his hero George Bush... below is my question and his comment: What is your opinion of these "Unarmed Civilians" "I do not see the unarmed civilians you are speaking of and besides why in hell are you looking for reasons to attack our soldiers. I would hope to hell you aren't an American, with this outrageous attack on our soldiers in combat. You are an embarrassment to our great country attacking our soldiers by even questioning their actions when you don't possibly know all the details behind this video." Was the Republican who made the above statement correct... did I really ask the wrong question or have I attacked our soldiers?I cant see where I am questioning their actions by asking a question.
Above His Party 2007-04-26 22:55:00 I know most bloggers have seen this video and there is some who want watch it for whatever reasons. Maybe the truth is to hard to bear or just maybe when a party or a man within a particular party is considered their God, it's just to hard to face the truth or see it. Just remember no one man, group of men or party should be above the country. Read more:Party
Why Cant We See The Truth 2007-04-26 01:52:00 Before she was captured by the Iraqis, Jessica Lynch "fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers...firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition" According to the Post account, which was based on anonymous sources citing battlefield reports, Lynch kept firing "even after she sustained multiple gunshot wounds." By her own account, none of that happened. She never fired her weapon and was knocked unconscious when her vehicle crashed, waking up hours later in an Iraqi hospital.America, you tried to impeach former President Clinton for lying about sex and yet you continually allow President Bush to lie to you about the war in Iraq.Just when will you began to realize that men and women are dying everyday in this war. Maybe you don't care because your son, daughter, father or mother are not asked to make a sacrifice.Maybe it's because this President unlike our former, is a Republican and we know that in America we are all about our party... they can do no wrong in our eyes.Jessica Read more:Truth
The Veto 2007-05-02 12:40:00 Four years ago our President declared "major combat operations" in Iraq were over, yesterday President Bush vetoed a bill that calls for the start of a withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.President Bush's Administration have already started their talking points-- saying the Democrats will be to blame for any hardships suffered by U.S. troops and their families.Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid addressed the media yesterday in respond to President Bush's veto.Congress appropriated more than $100 billion to support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would seem that it's now up to this President to explain to the American people why he would veto the appropriation. Go to Let's Talk About It to see Bill Maher and Donald Trump's view on Bush.
Who You Gonna Call 2007-05-06 10:15:00 Click PhotoSee Original StoryIt seems every time Bush has a problem with the war in Iraq and things are just not really going his way.... we get a new video from his ENEMY.It's as if he gives these folks a call and they come to his aid in some type of way.Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader mocks President Bush and legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, saying the bill would rob the group's fighters of the chance to kill more Americans.This is enough, how long are we going to be stuck on stupid... am I the only one that sees a pattern?
Greensburg, Kansas & The National Guard 2007-05-08 08:29:00 WHAT SAY YOU?The KansasNationalGuard
has 40 soldiers and 12 airmen on duty providing security. Approximately 64 soldiers of the 891st Engineer Battalion, headquartered in Iola, will arrive in Greensburg Monday morning, May 7, along with chainsaws and light engineering equipment to assist with debris removal.The Civil Air Patrol has been conducting reconnaissance flights along the tornado’s path to search for possible tornado victims, stranded motorists and residents.The Kansas Highway Patrol has 16 troopers on duty in the Greensburg area manning checkpoints, security patrols and search and rescue operations. The KHP communications van and three personnel are also in Greensburg assisting with communications.What if the next city has a population of 150,000... I was so down hearted after this that I posted "field of gold" by Sting live 1993, the song has nothing to do with this but it was what I wanted to hear. To listen go to Let's Talk About It.
"Holy Cow Batman" Bush Don't Think Troops Need Bigger Pay Raises 2007-05-18 03:58:00 Troops don’t need bigger pay raises, Bush budget officials said the administration "strongly opposes" both the 3.5 percent raise for 2008 and the follow-on increases, calling extra pay increases "unnecessary."It was so necessary to get the billions to waste in Iraq, but not necessary to raise the pay for the troops.The Bush administration had asked for a 3 percent military raise for Jan. 1, 2008, enough to match last year’s average pay increase in the private sector. The House Armed Services Committee recommends a 3.5 percent pay increase for 2008, and increases in 2009 through 2012 that also are 0.5 percentage point greater than private-sector pay raises.The slightly bigger military raises are intended to reduce the gap between military and civilian pay that stands at about 3.9 percent today. Under the bill, HR 1585, the pay gap would be reduced to 1.4 percent after the Jan. 1, 2012, pay increase.Bush budget officials said the administration “strongly opposes” both the 3.5 per Read more:Batman
, Troops
I Got Tagged - Blogs That Make You Think 2007-05-21 11:42:00 I got tagged by Reconstitution, It's an honor to be placed in such a Tag Award, and I'll try to give the sites that makes one think.The rules, created by The Thinking Blog, are thus:1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn't fit your blog).Below are the five blogs I chose that makes you Think.1. Who Hijacked Our Country - This site is by Tom Harper, who seems to come up with information that most readers never knew about. I would say that I read his post's almost daily.2. VARIOUS ECSTASIES - snave is the author of this site.... when I stop by and read what has been posted for the day, it's as if I've dictated to him what I wanted to say, but he writes it much better than I ever could.3. Major Conflict Read more:Tagged
, Blogs
What the Constitution Means To Our President 2007-05-24 15:01:00 See Original StoryThe Constitution
has stood for two centuries as the defining document of our government, the final source to determine - in the end - if something is legal or right.Every federal official - including the President
- who takes an oath of office swears to "uphold and defend" the Constitution of the United States.Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls the Constitution a "living document."Well Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, what would you say if I told you that President Bush thinks the Constitution in his own words; "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"The way this man treats our citizen's, I guess we are not too much better than the Constitution... Read more:Means
America, Bush and Iraq 2007-05-27 22:15:00 America has always had brave men and women who rose to the challenge when called to defend this country. That is why I am so angry at the conservative's, the Republican's, the Neo cons, the evangelical Christians , the chicken hawks, and even the media.Why, you ask? Because we allowed these people to threaten us as traitors if we spoke out against this war. We allowed these people to challenge anyone who had the will to speak out as not giving a true statement.We set back and allowed people to loose their jobs and their will to speak out in fear of being called traitors by these folks.Our consciousness has lost the ideal of freedom of speech, it know longer exist in this country because of this madness.On October 11 2002, the US House of Representatives authorized war-making powers to this President. The vote was 296-133 in favor in the Congress and 77 to 23 in the Senate. Congress agreed that the threat from Saddam Hussein caused them to give this President the right to go to war wi Read more:America
, Iraq
Moqtada al-Sadr Urges U.S. Withdrawal While President Signs Bill 2007-05-25 20:43:00 Moqtada al-Sadr Urges U.S. Withdrawal while a nation is mad and confused about the scrapping withdrawal timelines on funding for the Iraq war.A lot of Democrats voted for this Congress to get us out of Iraq. The bill was signed at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. I guess Bush is now on vacation."I think the president's policy is going to begin to unravel now," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who expressed disappointment that the bill did not force an end to U.S. participation in the conflict.Democrats are really hot under the collar on this one, but so are some Republicans.What say you? Read more:President
Which One Of The Two Would Be Grounds For Impeachment? 2007-06-08 00:10:00 Imagine someone in the year 2020 watching these two video's, which one of the two would they say were grounds for impeachment?I recall Rep. McKinney speaking out against this President in the House for the last time and telling us what some did not know.She was made out to be the bad person by both the Republicans, the media and others... I will admit, she had her own problems, but she gave us the truth and a lot of us ignored it.Imagine someone in the year 2020 watching this video and wondering, what was wrong with the American People?What say you? Read more:Grounds
, Impeachment
What About The Immigration Bill? 2007-06-14 17:21:00 What about the employers who hire these people and get away with cheap labor and break the law. They avoid paying minimum wage, payroll taxes, worker's compensation insurance, overtime and other legally mandated employee benefits, these Illegal Employers profit at the expense of taxpayers and honest Business owners. I think this is the main reason most Republican's in the senate went against President Bush on this Bill. This is called taking care of your "BASE" and the Republicans do this better than anyone.Andrew Speaker was infected with tuberculosis and went through Czech airlines to Montreal to the Canadian border with a passport that had been flagged by CDC and should have been detained and isolated. How could this man come back to America and get pass a check point with a flagged passport with ease?How can we count on a computer and a border patrol to process 12 million people with temporary work visa's, when we cannot control one man who's passport has been flagged?How many
CASE IN POINT Part2 2006-05-10 12:03:00 click photoDuring Dick Cheney's last days in office as Defense Secretary, he releases a document called Defense Strategy for the 1990s. It reasserts the plans for US global domination outlined in an earlier Pentagon policy papers. But because of Clinton's presidential victory, the implementation of these plans will have to wait until George Bush becomes president in 2001 and Cheney becomes vice president. However, Cheney and others will continue to refine this vision of global domination through the Project for the New American Century think tank (PNAC) while they wait to reassume political power.The neoconservative think-tank Project for the New American Century writes a blueprint for the creation of a global Pax Americana. The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century, was written for the Bush team even before the 2000 Presidential election. It was commissioned by Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and Depu
A Lie Is A Lie, Even Three Months Later 2007-06-16 07:25:00 This is how Bush lied to us and The White House press corps did nothing as they are doing now... Thanks to Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, this lie did not stand. Read more:Three
, Months
Case In Point Part 6/Conclusion 2007-06-21 07:31:00 To understand this post one must read Case in point Part one through five. I do not usually write a large post because I know that most readers skip through such things.Listed below are one through five:CASE IN POINT Part1CASE IN POINT Part2CASE IN POINT Part 3CASE IN POINT Part 4/MILLER KNEW, DID BUSH?CASE IN POINT PART 5/ "WE'RE GOING TO CATCH THE GUYS THAT KNOCKED DOWN THESE BUILDINGS"We went from doing the right thing about the people who committed 9/11, to something very shocking.“Eight days after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, Osama bin Laden possibly charters a flight to whisk his family out of the country, and it’s not worth more than a luggage search and a few brief interviews?” asked Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Clearly these documents prove the FBI conducted a slapdash investigation of these Saudi flights. We’ll never know how many investigative leads were lost due to the FBI’s lack of diligence.”The document states: “ON 9/19/01, A 727
Presidential Records Act May Be Extensive 2007-06-19 07:35:00 See Original StoryThe House Oversight Committee said Monday. E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee."Given the heavy reliance by White House officials on RNC e-mail accounts, the high rank of the White House officials involved, and the large quantity of missing e-mails," the report said, "the potential violation of the PresidentialRecords
Act may be extensive."This is what we get when WE the people allow a President to go unchecked by a Republican House and Senate. They have let this President and his Administration have its way with America and its laws.Republicans said there is no evidence that the law was violated or that the missing e-mails were of a government rather than political nature.Tony Snow said of the claim: "That's an allegation. We will respond to it in due course."The report said the House committee may need to issue subpoenas "to obtain the cooperation of the B
CASE IN POINT PART 5/ "WE'RE GOING TO CATCH THE GUYS THAT KNOCKED DOWN THESE BUILDINGS" 2006-06-30 23:26:00 The top people in al-Qaeda are out there somewhere in Pakistan and yet we're stuck in Iraq. the President said at 9/11 "We're going to catch the guys that knocked down these buildings," but we have lost that pursuit. The top people in al-Qaeda are still in force.Tell me why and how did we end up in Iraq, with all our forces? take a look at the people who killed Americans on 9/11:American Airlines Flight 11Waleed Alshehri, 22, from Saudi ArabiaWail Alshehri, 28, from Saudi ArabiaAbdulaziz Alomari, 22, from Saudi ArabiaSatam Al Suqami, 25, from Saudi ArabiaMohamed Atta, 33, from EgyptUnited Airlines Flight 93Saeed Alghamdi, 21, from Saudi ArabiaAhmed Alhaznawi, 20, from Saudi ArabiaAhmed Alnami, 23, from Saudi ArabiaZiad Jarrah, 26, from LebanonUnited Airlines Flight 175Ahmed Alghamdi, 22, from Saudi ArabiaHamza Alghamdi, 20, from Saudi ArabiaMarwan Alshehhi, 23, from United Arab EmiratesMohand Alshehri, 22, from Saudi ArabiaFayez Ahmed Banihammad (Alshehri), 24, from United Arab Emira
3.8 Million Dollars Bonus To VA Employees 2007-06-23 19:54:00 See Original StoryThe Veterans Administration are getting bonuses in the tune of 3.8 million dollars, while soldiers are still waiting for payments.Freshman Congressman Phil Hare (D-IL), who serves on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, last week called for the resignation of VA Secretary Jim Nicholson. Hare and others are steaming over the latest reports that $3.8 million in bonuses were given to senior officials at the embattled Veterans Administration in 2006. Among those given bonuses—as much as $33,000 each—were regional directors who wrote the VA's faulty 2005 budget, which government investigators have concluded was laden with misleading accounting that included claiming for false savings of $1.3 billion. On Friday, Rep. John Hall, Democrat of New York, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance, said he was introducing legislation that would freeze all future bonus payments to VA officials until the department cuts the backlog of veteran Read more:Bonus
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