We're America, We Don't Torture :-)

"I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture…"

President Obama? No.

This was June 26, 2003. President George W. Bush.

Read more.

So there it is. We should all be in agreement. Let's get to work and prosecute "all acts of torture".

According to a Fox News report, we'll be violating international law if we don't.


Please watch more here. :-)

Help Convict Dick and W

The Bush cabal's time may be coming to a close, but their crimes will live on in history. Do your part to help bring them to justice, and show the world we care about atonement and correcting this foul time in America.

Follow the instructions below. Your message will go straight to Obama's people:

1. Sign in at http://change.gov/openforquestions and remember you have to set up a login for yourself at that site to vote.
   
   
2. Click on "Additional Issues" under "Pick a Topic" on the left.
   
   
3. The special prosecutor question started by "Bob Fertik" should be the one leading the top of that section (and now leading all questions over all topics with 16,000 votes).
   
   
4. Look right for the checkbox, mouseover it so it goes from white to dark, then click to cast your vote.

Please cast your vote as soon as possible, as the voting may close at any time. They may not work straight through holiday weekends, but we DO.

What this means is that Obama will now have to ANSWER this question on his official site, just as if he had accepted this question at a real press conference. And we're going to keep the heat on in every other possible way, just stay tuned.

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Father, bail me out!

The lipstick now belongs on the pig’s ass.

A year ago Treasury Secretary Paulson testified before Congress that “the economy is ‘marvelous, absolutely marvelous’”. Paulson is the former Goldman Sachs CEO who, in 2005, “earned” a $38 million bonus. He was one of the highest paid executives in America for ten years. Now he wants $700 billion to pass out to his Wall Street friends to get them back on their feet.

Since Bush became President, the top 400 individuals in the U.S. “earned” $670 billion. Staggering. As many are saying, even some key Republicans, Treasury Secretary Paulson’s bailout plan is just socialism for the rich. Do you hear the cheering? That’s Wall Street. Real economists hate it. Paulson’s original proposal was totally ridiculous.
Listen to David Herszenhorn of The New York Times tear it apart.

This “bailout” attempt goes hand-in-hand with the massive dishonesty and monstrous incompetence of the Bush Administration. Imagine the nerve, for the administration to say a month ago the fundamentals of the economy were strong. The code-speak there? Our rich friends are doing well. Now the fox wants a golden key to the hen house.

The Bush cabal have absolutely no regard for the middle class. We don’t exist. It is survival of the fittest for us. In 2007 Wall Street’s top firms paid out $39 billion in performance bonsus. Take a breath and read that again. $39,000,000,000.00. Right now, the top 1% of Americans earn more than all the bottom 50% combined. Yet universal health care is socialism, helping poor people heat their homes this winter is socialism, helping them send their kids to college, socialism. Bail out that wealthiest 1%? Absolutely necessary, with no judicial or legislative review. A total blank check. “Trust us”. . . . on a pig’s ass we will.

And don’t expect real help from John McCain. Phil Gramm/John McCain hold the prize for being the most rabid, super deregulators in Congress. The government’s last big bank bailout involved McCain, his poor judgement and joyous connivance with the banks - the Keating Five scandal.
Listen to a short, interesting refresher course on the S&L bailout.

As James Joyce proposed, life is an intensely serious low comedy. How could he know the “free market” buffoons would play it so perfectly?

Time is short to reassure the world about our capability. It can be measured in days. The next act in this low comedy could be ugly.

Impeachment Articles Read on the House Floor

Right this minute, Rep. Dennis Kucinich is on the floor of the House of Representatives introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush.

Watch C-Span Now!

If you don't have cable, go to a bar and tell them to put it on C-Span 1!

Or watch at the Video/Audio tab at C-Span.

Action in the House coming later this week!

Good websites to watch for updates and actions:

http://kucinich.us
http://democrats.com
http://afterdowningstreet.org

Hooray, Dennis!!