sad day and even the poll on C-Span that asks if detainees have rights to go before court to question their being detained - over 80% says yes that have this right!

The Republicans are soft on terrorists if they have to resort to torture and not being able to try even one in a court of law in five years.

I just can't believe this shit!

  Who the hell is directing traffic out there in DC??!!;o(  I am so bewildered.  

When you are an incompetent boobs, it pays to have weak opponents.  The Republicans do whatever they can to fire up there base, even when they lose.  The Dems do whatever they can to lose their base.

Obama is a Patriot

We are so fucked.

America is DEAD.

I just made arrangements for my kids to be cared for once me and my husband are "detained" because we will not stop marching.

Good Bye.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

I never thought we'd return to the days of John Adams, but I guess that's what you get with a president as bad as - no, worse than -  Adams. There is so much more at stake now.

Cripes.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."

Sinclair Lewis was right.  And my father and all those who fought fascism in WWII seemed to only have delayed its arrival here.

I just gotta say, apparently this no longer applies to the Us of A.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —
(My note:So maybe we should be thinking about this part)

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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I am about to call barbara Boxer and tell her not to send me anymore requests for money.  Same with the DNC (actually, I already called them).  Same with countless others who are always begging me for money and ten not doing anythuign with it.

Oh, I'm gonna vote in 2006 all right.  And then I am going to give money to every single primary opponent of these weak ass, waste-of-time, waste-of-flesh democrats.
so pissed.

I need a drink.

Brendan Calling John Mccain

And so it's official: we're not where we think we are. The American democratic experiment has utterly failed; the dream is over.
What next?

And here I thought nothing would make me feel more let down or betrayed by my party's elected legislators than the vote that put Alito on the Supreme Court.

How DARE they bargain away their strongest card -- the filibuster -- in exchange for something that they HAD to have realized had no hope of passage at that price?  They didn't even agree based on the PASSAGE of the Specter amendment -- only on its CONSIDERATION?  How utterly STUPID can they possible get?  

Now, ironically, the only hope lies with the same Supreme Court justices whose confirmation we opposed...

This is a sad, sad day.  

Keith Olbermann speaks for me.

They are so busy war profiteering over in Iraq in order to spread"freedom and democracy" while they chisel away at it here. We are so screwed people. Now what?

Frodo failed...Bush has got the ring.

We just violated International Law.

I need someone that understands International Law to fill us in what is the next step is regarding a citizen's responsibilities in upholding International Law.

What are we now required by International law to do to get the US back in compliance.

"...Dammit, whatever happened to the concept of accountability for catastrophic failure?..." -Al Gore

The myth of American exceptionalism is now officially dead. The myth was on life support as it was, and it was only a matter of time before they pulled the plug over in DEE CEE.

The Mahatma X Files. Peace With Attitude.

The bankruptcy bill made me sick.  Now this. There really are no words.

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin Survivor Left Blogistan

Fuck the Goddamn Democrats. These sniveling cowards made the deal to protect their own jobs at the expense everything America always claimed to stand for. This was no "compromise", it was a blatant, shameless sellout. The Democrats had a historic moment. They used it to supinely cast their lot with America's domestic enemies. By doing so they proved for once and for all that electoral politics is no longer relevant, and justice and decency will have to be fought for by other means.

I am ashamed that I ever imagined that either party was anything more than a punch and judy show created to co-opt democracy itself. They have left us an American future of failure, repression, and civil war.

Bush is "the first President to admit to an impeachable offense." --Former Nixon counsel John Dean

Fuck Politicians! Fuck them all!!!

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

that Madman, AG and others have been saying for some time now...a vote for Democrats is a vote for a "kinder and gentler" version of Big Brother and the continuation of war without end...

Brings to mind a song written 10 years ago, by John Cale...

THE ICE AGE

From the 2004 Rainman Records release "Heretics & Privateers"

Words and music by John Kay

Beware the deadly wind howlin' at your door
Feel the freezin' chill, creep into your bones
Stay warm, stay warm, you're heart could die of cold

The ice age is upon us, frozen smiles and frozen stares
These days are short on mercy, bitter tears flow everywhere
The heart is growing harder till it just no longer cares

The orphans down below, reach up and call your name
But you quickly turn away and leave them standing in the rain
Take heed, take heed, you may reap just what your sow
They won't hear you scream for mercy
If they catch you down on the killing floor

Someday you'll wake up in a cold sweat
And lie there shivering in your bed
Your heartless demons, they will come to claim their toll
And they'll stay with you till the end, when you go down in your box of bones

So be careful of the wind seeping `neath your door
Beware the deadly chill, it'll creep into your bones
Stay warm, stay warm, your soul could die of cold

© 1995
Black Leather Music, Inc.

We are witness to the self destruction of the American ideal, and it is happening much faster than anyone could have imagined.

I am ashamed.

lTMF'sA...the revolution will not be televised...Peace

Why didn't I take my own advice and stay away from the internet today?

How utterly shameful.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

The day after the 2004 election, I felt so demoralized. Dean's presidential run had long been destroyed.  Cegelis had lost to frickin Henry Hyde.  The decider was going to rule as president again.

I went to my store room pulled out an old mattress, threw a blanket over my head and cried for hours.

Now I feel cold. And nauseated. And empty. Time for a long walk.

If you want things to get better, be prepared to deal with change.

I need a drink. Any Philly boomantribunesters, get in touch as to where.

i am embarrassed and ashamed today.

Brendan Calling John Mccain

Looks like Torture Law illegal according to treaty...

"...The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was signed by the U.S. in 1992 and outlaws torture or degrading treatment.

The treaty mandates signatories to submit reports on their compliance with the treaty every five years to the Human Rights Committee, which reviews reports and presents its findings to the United Nations...."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1029-03.htm

US Constitution says treaty obligations take precedence over all Congressional action.

From the text of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

"Article 7

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation."

http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm

The terms of the 1992 Covenant on Civil and Political Rights take precedence.

"...Dammit, whatever happened to the concept of accountability for catastrophic failure?..." -Al Gore