What is Blackwater? Worse Than Abu Ghraib and Tony Soprano?

What is Blackwater? — by Catherine Morgan

At least 90% of its revenue comes from government contracts, two-thirds of which are no-bid contracts.

Does Our President Care About The Health of Our Children? It would appear not.

Does Our President Care About The Health of Our Children? — by Catherine Morgan

In a nutshell…Our president plans on vetoing a bill that would guarantee American children health care. Why is that? Well, he thinks it’s too expensive. Give me a break! This is coming from a man that is spending OVER $700 MILLION A DAY in Iraq. Again, give me a break! How this man sleeps at night is totally beyond me.

The Yahoo Democratic Candidate Mashup and Debate

Yahoo News did a Democratic Candidate Mashup and Debate. Even though the polls for this debate are officially closed, you can still go and pick the candidates and issues you want to hear about, making it a debate just for you…It sure beats listening to a whole debate on the television. If you haven’t already, you should check it out.

The Move-on “Betray Us” Ad - Who is really betraying the troops?

The Move-on “Betray Us” Ad - Who is really betraying the troops? — by Catherine Morgan

Am I missing something? The Senate has the time and inclination to come together in support of condemning a political ad. But the Iraq war, bringing the troops home, none of that is important enough…not as important as a stupid piece of paper with words on it…I wonder how the troops feel about that? I don’t get it.

Are The Troops Ever Going To Come Home?

Are the troops EVER going to come home? These are REAL people we are talking about, and our government is just writing them off. How many more of them have to die because politicians don’t give a damn?

FOX CENSORS SALLY FIELD’S TRIBUTE TO MOTHERS, AND STATEMENT THAT IF MOTHERS RULED THE WORLD THERE WOULD BE NO WAR. With YouTube Video.

FOX CENSORS SALLY FIELD - FOX Hosts The Emmy’s and Censors Sally Field’s Comments on the War. Shocking! Not, so much.

Sally Field said on live television (unfortunately, with a five second delay) what every one of us already knows…If women (particularly mothers) ruled the world, there would be no more war.

SHAME ON YOU FOX!!!

From The Huffington Post…

“If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any god -” Emmy winner Sally Field said before the Emmycast cut her off her sound and pointed the camera away from the stage so viewers would be distracted. Cut off were the words “god-damned wars in the first place.”

The Top Ten Censored Stories This Year - From Project Censored with YouTube video

YOU CAN SEE ALL TWENTY-FIVE CENSORED STORIES AT PROJECT CENSORED.

The Top Ten Censored Stories This Year…

This year’s Project Censored presents a chilling portrait of a newly empowered executive branch signing away civil liberties for the sake of an endless and amorphous war on terror. And for the most part, the major news media weren’t paying attention.

Is it o.k. to criticize the President? Do we still have the right to free speech?

 

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IS IT O.K. TO CRITICIZE THE PRESIDENT? — by Catherine Morgan

It seems to me that we have taken political correctness to an extreme that Roosevelt himself may have considered “wrong” and “morally treasonable”. To understand what I mean by this you need to read this quote by President Roosevelt, a Republican President.

“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”

“Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star”, 149 May 7, 1918

This was what President Roosevelt thought during a time that he himself was being harshly criticized. So, when I hear people saying that if we criticize President Bush, or question his policies we are “emboldening the terrorists”, it makes me a little angry. It seems to me that freedom of speech is the cornerstone of our country, and we can not allow anyone to take away our voice.

The Petraeus Iraq Report Card: Finding the truth…can it be done?

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Will we ever know the truth about Iraq? This is what the National Security Network (NSN) is saying…

09.10.2007

Today the National Security Network released a new video “Crisis in Confidence: The Politics and Policy of the Petraeus Report” in which frank assessments of the Bush Administration’s flawed Iraq strategy are offered by leading experts such as Richard Clarke, Jon Alterman, and Mara Rudman.

Personally, I feel if you really want to get the truth about what is happening in Iraq, you should not try to figure it out by listening to Gen. Petraeus. Let’s just say, it’s not unlike an accountant fudging the numbers for a client, or a lawyer getting a guilty person off on a technicality. In the case of this “Iraq Report Card”…the numbers, the words, the graph charts, they are all part of a carefully calculated program of propaganda, to cover-up the truth (not reveal it). And every major news network will cover some variety of this propaganda as truth, just as they are expected to…except of course for FOX, who will be “fair and balanced” in their coverage of this story, as in every story they do.

So where can someone find the truth? I won’t presume to know the answer to that question, but I do have some suggestions of where we can all start looking.

Let me just say one thing first. If you are getting all of your news from talk radio…”You need an intervention, seek help immediately.”

The Republican Debate Recap — Who Won? YouTube Video of Tucker Carlson on MSNBC.

Sorry. I couldn’t bring myself to watch the debate last night. But, here is Tucker Carlson’s Recap.

If you watched…Let me know what you think.

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Judge Strikes Down Part of the Patriot Act as Unconstitutional

Judge Strikes Down Part of the Patriot Act as Unconstitutional…

Our Emperor Has No Clothes - But that’s o.k. because history will show that no clothes is exactly how wars are won.

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Surprise! President Bush took advantage of a “photo op” yesterday in Iraq…I wonder how much that set the American taxpayer back? Honestly, what’s another billion anyway? And what an eloquent speech he gave to the troops. I for one, am now convinced that this whole Iraq war thing is totally necessary, and the surge is really working, and we are so much safer…Yup.

I totally get it now…Lies equal truth…We see what we are told to see. We do this because we are patriotic, to disagree with lies being sold as the truth would be tantamount to treason. It totally makes sense to me now. I’m just praying, that President Bush will tell me who I need to vote for, so we can continue this well oiled policy of pomp and circumstance, with our next administration.

The Great Iraq Swindle: How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to steal from YOU, the American Taxpayer. (with YouTube video)

This story was brought to my attention today, it really sheds a lot of light on the “real” reason we are in Iraq…It’s not about oil, or weapons of mass destruction, or terrorism, or even freedom…It’s about good-old-fashioned American greed (but on a larger scale than we have ever seen before).

So, where have your tax dollars gone? And, how many American lives have been lost so a few select American men can become more wealthy than any of us will ever comprehend? Read this article, and it will be very clear to you.

Here are details that will shed some light on the “real” cost of the war in Iraq. This way, when the time comes (and it will) that we are driving our sons and daughters to register for the draft, it will be clear exactly why our government needs us to do it. Although, this pathetic display of American capitalism will surely be in Iran by then as well.

THE GREAT IRAQ SWINDLE:

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By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer

DES MOINES, Iowa - Republican Fred Thompson will officially launch his presidential bid Sept. 6 in a Webcast on his campaign site, followed by a five-day tour of early primary states.

Thompson, 65, is vying to be seen as the most consistent mainstream conservative in the race.