9/11 “Celebrations”

…remind us of the truth of it all

Once again, it’s the anniversary of a tragic incident in U.S. history when an incompetent or complicit President and an uncaring, disengaged or complicit administration sat on their thumbs despite numerous intelligence warnings and allowed terrorists (primarily from Saudi Arabia) to attack America. The Bush administration and their closest friends and supporters in the military/industrial/oil complex have benefited and continue to benefit tremendously from the horrible act and continue to make billions from the subsequent illegal and immoral wars waged against Iraq and Afghanistan. Trillions of U.S. dollars spent, being spent, stolen, gone ‘missing’ and no one is held accountable, no one prosecuted.

Why did it all happen? If we discount the possibility that it was all staged by the Bush administration—and I’m not completely dissuaded of the possibility considering that after the fact, the government confiscated hundreds of video and audio of the incidents, the FBI and other government agencies redacted and classified as Secret thousands of pages of information relating to the terrorist act and the government committee tasked with ‘investigating’ it all was nothing but an administration whitewash regurgitating nothing but the Bush administration party line that has kept the truth from the American people and world—then we are left with the lying war criminal Condoleezza Rice’s assessment “they hate us for our freedom” garbage and that’s a lie. If anything they hate us because we go to their countries and take their freedoms away by supporting murderous dictators and stealing their natural resources for corporate profits.

If 9/11 wasn’t an inside job then the truth of it is clear. The West (as they like to say) was attacked that day as a continuation of the evil and insane thousands of years’ old ‘holy’ war between the three Middle-Eastern religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Those Islamic terrorists attacked us because a certain group of people in this country want to pretend that our government is somehow a ‘Christian’ government. It isn’t. It is a secular government. As long as we in the United States continue to allow Middle-Eastern religion to run our Western government, we will be in constant war for thousands of more years or until the insanity of the Middle-Eastern religions are purged from our Western, secular government.

Meanwhile, the truth remains shrouded in lies and disinformation; the war criminals Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove, Gonzales, Powell and their entire administration entourage walk free, flaunting their war crimes and banking their profits; and gross commercialism of a tragic chapter in our history is sold to us on a daily basis. Buy something red, white and blue to wear to your 9/11 ceremony. It might make you forget the whole, disgusting truth of it all.

Obama Gets Blamed For Bad Economic Numbers On Jobs Report For August

…But is it the President who’s accountable on this issue of jobs or is it someone else?

Since it is the right-wing blowhards who are making the most noise, it’s important to examine their philosophy on this issue. Specifically, when it comes to job creation, what’s the Republican ‘wisdom’ and does it make sense to blame the President as the Republicans are doing? The answer is no if you believe the Republican oft-stated ideas on job creation in this country.

Listen to the Republicans and they all blame President Obama for the bad job numbers report that just came out reflecting NO job growth in America for August 2011. But the Republicans are liars who also insist that it isn’t the government who creates jobs. They want it both ways. At best Republicans are evil hypocrites. Why? Because it is an easy and accurate conclusion to draw by listening to Republican rhetoric and by examining the ‘wisdom’ of their political ideology.

This ‘wisdom’ decries the ‘absolute fact’ (and constant Republican talking point) that government does NOT create jobs but the private sector does. This has been the constant mantra of Republican and Tea Party extremists since President Obama took office. Logically, since the President is part of the government, he cannot/should not be held accountable for the negative jobs growth and unemployment in this country if we are to believe in the validity of ‘Republican wisdom’. Therefore, President Obama is NOT responsible for negative job growth in this country according to the wisdom of Republicans and their foolish Tea Party extremist fringe.

The Republicans are great at destroying the economy and then putting the blame off on their political opponents and to hell with the truth.

Want to blame someone for the poor economy and lack of jobs in this country? Blame the ones who overwhelmingly support Republican and Tea Party extremists: the business corporations of the private sector.

As I type this, private sector corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars in cash and all but refusing to hire workers or expand operations in this country. It is the private sector corporations and the right-wing political hacks they support who are responsible and who are to blame for high unemployment and lack of jobs in the United States.

Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, Maybe

I and others have, for years, said that if the U.S.A. ever finds Osama again they will kill him. So, it's no surprise that a 'kill order' was issued and supposedly carried out. Having him alive was too risky for Bush/Cheney and others in the Bush Regime who let him escape in Tora Bora and Bush made plenty of excuses for his incompetent or deliberate ignoring of U.S. security warnings of imminent attacks prior to 9/11.

President Obama first proved his fealty to the Republican Corporate Fascist by not prosecuting the war crimes of the Bush Regime, not prosecuting the criminals on Wall Street, not prosecuting the Banksters and now he's made sure the one man who could have told the world of the truth of 9/11 is killed. Do I care if Osama is dead or not? No, but then we don't have independent, verifiable proof of his death do we?

"He was buried at sea and this body handled in the Muslim way" "Trust us" goes the propaganda. No independent verification of death, no independent autopsy, no neutral parties making a judgement but we are assured he's dead by the very man who also promised 'hope' and 'positive change' for Americans after the eight year disaster that was Bush and Cheney

Oh, yeah and Santa Claus will bring everyone a pony next Christmas.

Truth From Around

…and points to ponder

The Tea Party Republicans are wrong on history, wrong on government and wrong in supporting their rich corporate donors over what is right for the country and the good of its citizens. These same groups of individuals had eight years of control in all three branches of the government under Bush/Cheney and cared nothing at all about spending except to increase it. These same people claim to hate big government but in fact, under the Bush/Cheney regime, the federal government was increased by over 450,000 people and the budget deficit soared with nary a peep from Republicans about ‘deficit’. In fact, since President Eisenhower, the budget deficit has increased under all Republican presidents—only Democratic presidents have put the budget in surplus.

Conservative policies are regressive and unproductive unless you are a member of the top two percent of rich Americans. They wage war on the poor, the young and helpless and all females. They actively work to stifle workers wages and rights while increasing giant welfare give-aways to the super rich. They are unfit to serve in a government that is “of the people, by the people and for the people” and “for the common good”.

And, no, Tea Party members the original tea party wasn’t about a demand for smaller government. It was about the taxes imposed on the colonies by the conservative British government and the East India Trading company. You know, against corporations and regressive, dictatorial, non-compromising government.

Points To Ponder:


“Remember when Planned Parenthood, National Public Radio and the world’s climate scientists crashed the market, wiped out half the 401Ks and took billions of dollars in TARP money? Me neither.”

“The fate of our planet, our destiny, is being determined by a small group of greedy, wealthy corporatists and their politician puppets who control and profit from dirty energy, environmental disaster and never ending war.”

Think the Congress really cares about cutting unnecessary spending? Think again.

“Government plans on cutting federal funding to homeless veterans while at the same time giving over $25 million to NASCAR, a corporate entity that unnecessarily burns hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline and oil every year.”

The priorities of Congress are a disgrace. Their lies are worse. Their actions border on criminal.

“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress.” –John Adams

Honest Abe Got It Right

America’s 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, had something to say about the current crop of anti-union, anti-American Tea Party Republicans like Wisconsin’s Koch brothers puppet, Scott Walker.

"If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool."
— Abraham Lincoln

Poster by Ann Stretton

Surfin’ Those Middle-Eastern California Waves

Hey, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX And Affiliated Desk-Jockey Talkers And Media Talking Heads Everywhere…Your Misinformation Is Showing…Again

Libya is NOT in the Middle-East. It. Is. In. Africa.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Eugene Robinson on the Rachel Maddow Show tonight was just the latest in a very, very long list of geographically challenged media blabbers to reveal his ignorance of geography and Chris Hayes, sitting in for Rachel, repeated the lie of where one might find Libya on the map.

I know it’s hard and inconvenient for commentators to get it right, to say what they really want to say, but then they’d have to admit their ignorant way of thinking about this particular issue is horribly flawed and runs something like, “Well, if it has a large population of Muslims, it must be the Middle-East.” This is an absurd, dishonest, irrational and illogical view.

Did you know Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. including nearby suburbs and Orange County has the highest population of Muslims in the United States? Guess that makes Los Angeles, California in the Middle-East. Right? Go to your maps or world globes, boys and girls, and look at the Middle-East. Find Los Angles, California yet?

No, geography doesn’t work that way. Truth is, of course, neither Libya nor Los Angeles is in the Middle-East and lying about their locations reveals a lot about the liar.

Repeat after me: “Libya is in Africa. Not in the Middle-East.”

Hypocrisy And Double Standard...

...Fits Obama Like It Did The War Criminal Bush

Today, the White House warned the leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, he will be held accountable for civilian deaths and that he must abide by the United Nations resolution for a cease-fire.

Meanwhile, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Bush/Obama military arm of the United States Military/Industrial Mega-Corporate Complex continues to violate American law and the Geneva Convention by torturing, imprisoning, maiming and killing innocent men, women and children.

CNN Races Fox To The Bottom...

...With This Latest Map

Here we go again. Another ‘news’ source misinforming the public. Notice how San Francisco and Los Angeles have switched places? Why can’t CNN afford a graphics artist with at least a little intelligence and basic knowledge of geography?

When The Evil, Ignorant And Insane Speak...

…Everyone Suffers

1. State Rep. Martin Harty (R-NH House of Representatives) told a constituent that mentally challenged people and other "defective" people should die in a modern-day Siberia.

2. Confusing Massachusetts for New Hampshire, Michelle Bachmann (Republican) claims New Hampshire was “the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord.”

3. Propagandist Glenn Beck says Japan’s earthquake is a “message” from God to follow the Ten Commandments.

4. Not to be outdone by Beck, Pat Robertson’s 700 Club is raising millions of dollars from their mindless sheep allegedly for disaster aid to Japan but admit a large portion of the money will be used to convert Japan into a Christian country because “being a non-Christian country is what brought about the recent natural disaster.”

5. During a Kansas state House Appropriations Committee hearing on state spending for controlling feral swine, GOP state Rep. Virgil Peck suggested that hunters could shoot undocumented immigrants like they do with pigs in order to control illegal immigration.

6. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) says that a hate crimes bill including LGBT protections would lead to the legalization of Nazism, necrophilia, pedophilia, and bestiality and warned that repealing the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy could lead to the end of existence.

7. An eleven year old girl who was gang raped by as many as 25 men and boys ‘asked for it’ according to Fox News citing her manner of dress, and conjecturing that she "must have lied about her age." Angie Woods, who grew up in Cleveland, Texas where the rape occurred, doubts the rape claim also, saying the eleven year old must have lied about her age. "Them boys didn't rape her. She wanted this to happen. I'm not taking nobody's side, but if she hadn't put herself in that predicament, this would have never happened."

Extremist Hypocrisy

The lying, dishonest (“it’s all about the budget not union busting”) Wisconsin extremist Republicans used illegal means to get their union-busting laws passed. Democrats are hopeful that they can recall the Republicans for their foul deeds but what makes anyone think that the corporate fascists of the Wisconsin Republican Party will allow that? It wouldn't surprise me to see the Republicans change the recall law.

Are The State Governors' Attacks Against Unions Legal?

Supporters of Republican Governor Walker of Wisconsin, particularly the loud and uneducated Teabaggers, claim that collective bargaining and Unions aren’t rights in this country and scream that demonstrators against Governor Walker should shut up and go home.

The Teabaggers should follow their own advice.

They should also read the National Labor Relations Act enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1935 to protect the right to create labor unions and engage in collective bargaining in this country.

The larger question is this: if the Unions and collective bargaining are a federally protected right, how can a state governor take them away?

A Lesson And Invitation For Samuel

...and his posted comment from the right-wing-O-sphere



“You are such a liberal p***y you little piece of s**t.” – Samuel at AOL


Thank you for visiting my site, Samuel.

I posted your comment here because the content is sadly predictable. As we can all see, rather than actually addressing the issues that concern you, you decided to post immature name calling and rude personal attacks. Your post illustrates well the fact that rudeness and hatred is all the main-stream conservative right wing has. Their ideas fail to move our country forward into a postive future, fail to make life better for all our citizens, fail to support the ideals of liberty that made this country great. The conservative governing style is divisive, counter-productive, old-country, stale, dangerous and out of touch with not only modern America but with the founders of our U.S. government.

"There's been a lot of progress in this country over the last 75 years, and we've been against all of it." ~the conservative motto.

Your fear and hatred of liberal thinking individuals is an odd position unless, of course, you support the rights of totalitarian and fascist dictatorships and the wealthy corporate elites over the rights of the individual citizen. Judging from your comments, had you lived in our colonial times, you would no doubt have supported King George and his repressive conservative government against the citizens of the U.S. colonies.

You see, Samuel, the founders of our government were liberals and wrote the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights against the backdrop of the cruel, repressive right-wing, conservative forces of King George of England. The freedoms, liberties and rights expressed in those founding documents were antithetic to the practices and goals of the King and the rich merchant elites that supported him.

In today’s world we still have those repressive, right wing conservative merchant elites in the form of rich CEOs like the Koch brothers who spent millions of dollars to sway elections, buy politicians and influence judges to do their bidding at the expense of all the rest of us. What’s going on in Wisconsin and around the nation against the unions and the citizenry is a prime example of such anti-freedom, anti-liberty, anti-Americanism promulgated by the very type of power our nation’s founders fought to be free from.

“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.” ~John Maynard Keynes.

The Republican State Media in the form of Fox News and hate-mongers like Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly are all propaganda mouthpieces who spend their time disseminating falsehoods, lies and hatred about our nation, our people and our history. There’s a very long, documented list of times these people have been caught spouting lies as facts. They do it for two reasons: to perpetuate the power of rich, greedy elites and for money, lots of money. Don’t be fooled into believing they have the best interest of you, me or the nation as a goal. They don’t.

Truth is, Samuel, around here the word liberal is a positive, pro-liberty, pro-freedom, pro-American term. On this site, being liberal is a refreshing, progressive point of view against conservative repressors just as it was with the founders of our nation.

Samuel, I invite you to cast off the darkness of your mental and emotional chains of right-wing repression, lies and hatred that have made you so negatively emotional and unable to rationally consider facts and reality as part of your decision-making process. You can do it. Join us. It won’t be easy but you will be happier for it. Come into the light of the reality-based community of Americans. We welcome you.


“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.” ~William E. Gladstone, 1866