We’re getting into election season again, and as easy as it is to blame George Bush and the neo-cons for so many of America’s ills, it’s way past time to recognize that the Democrats are no prize pigs either. Their total lack of leadership on domestic and foreign policies is obvious in that they are afraid to be called names by Republicans. They were too afraid of the U-word (Un-patriotic) to stop congress or the president from enacting that travesty of civil rights we call the PATRIOT Act, just like they were too cowardly to challenge the administration's reasons for going to war in Iraq.

They have been to afraid to be called soft on terror to stop 5 trillion dollars of Bush borrowing, and they were too afraid of being called anti-Semitic to criticize Israel’s pointless 33 day destruction of Lebanon. The funniest case so far was when Joseph Lieberman became such a presidential lapdog that he lost the faith of democratic voters in his home state CT. Do you know what a pussy and a moron you have to be to lose the faith of Connecticut Democrats?

We’re talking about Clinton loving, tree-hugging, Bush-bashing Connecticut Democrats people, and Joe Lieberman couldn’t hang on to them? I'm still waiting for someone to say that Lieerman running as an Independent will spilt the progessive vote and the republicans will take that seat in Congress. How exactly would that be worse than what we have now? How will Joe running make it better. It's just two sides of the same colostomy bag.

Our two party system now only exists to sustain its money-grubbing debt spending self. There is no appreciable difference between democrats and republicans. Democrats are now pro-war and Republicans are deficit spending whores.

The only answer to this besides a new constitution is IRV (Instant Runoff Voting), where you rank candidates in order of descending disdain, instead of putting all your rotten eggs in one basket. It allows people to vote for who they really want, instead of who they find to be the second least repugnant candidate. http://www.instantrunoff.com/

I love America, but this two party system is so corrupt and evil that the only assurance it gets us is, that very few people actually get to vote for candidates they consider to be decent human beings. That’s just not good enough, not when we can do better. Please follow the link to IRV. If you’ve never heard of it, I promise it will make you more hopeful than you have been for at least 6 years.

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My deepest thanks to the Federal Judges who ruled last week, that warrant-less wiretapping is unconstitutional. The proto-fascists in the executive and in the “justice department” (insert smirk here) want power that would make Big Brother bright green with envy. This decision doesn’t give American’s back the rights they lost in the Patriot Act, but we must start somewhere.

Our thug President and that little crap-weasel Gonzales insist that warrants, even those obtained after the fact, are just too burdensome to deal with in their war on terror. If that is the case, maybe they aren’t qualified for the jobs they have. Administrations from both parties fought the cold war pretty well, and individual abuses aside, they did it without shredding the Constitution or the rule of law. Further more, they didn’t bitch about the Bill of Rights while they were doing it.

Don’t create a police state on my account; I am far more afraid of the neo-cons than I am of Al Queda.

This fear mongering has got to stop. It’s making us stupid and paranoid, and worse than that, it’s making ordinary citizens voluntarily give up the civil rights we have enjoyed for 200 years. Neo-con apologists are telling people that they have nothing to worry about as long as they have nothing to hide, but all the while they are appealing to fear.
When did “rights” and “privacy” become dirty words? These rights are our heritage, and they are more American than the current crop of power grabbers were on their best days.

Everyone still seems to be panicking over the British terror plot to blow up airliners. The news told you to panic and who are you to question?

The problem is that the chemical reaction ascribed to the would-be terrorists is difficult to synthesize without privacy and time. It's also just as likely, to only blow up the terrorists playing mile high chemist in the lavatory, as it is to blow up the infidels on the plane.

So few Americans have the aptitude or attention span for science, however, for the 16 or 17 of you geeks out there who can read more than 200 words, without needing to see a picture of a naked women or a muscle car, I am including a link to the science on this particular story.

I am also including a link to some half naked women in hopes of getting 50 or 60 people to read the science. I'm such a whore!

http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror_labs/

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Ladies, you stripped in the name of science and I salute you!!!

The neo-con “group mind” has taken one too many blows to the head if they think America can win a conventional war against Iran. Hezbollah is a terrorist group and they are financed and armed by Iran, but there isn’t a damn thing we can do about it.

Even if the US pulled out of Iraq, our military is spent and Iran knows it. Iran probably has better intelligence about Iraq than we do, and we are supposedly occupying the country. The difference is that everyone in Iraq hates us now. That might not have been the case 24 hours after Saddam was toppled but it is now.

The only Iraqi’s who don’t hate us are getting paid by us, and purchased loyalty only lasts as long as the check clears. Americans are going to get tired of these 90 Billion dollar emergencies every three months, as soon as they realize they aren’t any safer than they were 5 years ago. Basically, we will pull out of Iraq the next time there is a terrorist attack on American soil.

Is America so egocentric as to believe that the various groups in Iraq should have no other agenda except what we tell them? That would be unnatural and unique in the history of the world.

Overthrowing the Iranian regime would be 1000 times worse than overthrowing Iraq. Most Iraqi’s hated and feared Saddam so they really didn’t care that we got rid of him. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad enjoys enormous popular support in his country, so much so that he was elected in a free election. What business do we have plotting to overthrow him? His country was supporting Hezbollah long before he was elected, and they will continue to support them long after he has been replaced in a free election.

Is Iran Supporting Hezbollah really any different than the US supporting the Contra’s in Central America, or Mujahadeen when they were fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan? Lets face it, America has support some damn despicable groups in its time, and we always claimed to have a reason. Are we so short sighted as to think the Iranians don’t believe their reason is just?

If we go to war with Iran, we can count on US casualties that make the 2500 killed in Iraq look like a training exercise. I love America and I will support our troops to the end. Supporting them in the case means not supporting the administration that sends them on a fool’s errand. I predict that any move against Iran will not only mean blood in the streets of Tehran, but blood in the streets of Washington DC. All I can hope is that it will all be neo-con blood

We all live out our own weird little versions of the American Dream. George Bush's involves genocide. Dr. Gonzo taught us how to live it while giving the PTBs a thumb in the eye, but I don’t believe even the Good Doctor knew what we would be facing in the second half of this terrible decade.

Whether he admits it or not, George Bush prays at the alter of terrorism, and sucks at the teat of fundamentalist Islam. If it weren’t for 9-11 he would have been out of a job in 2004. But since 9-11 George and the rest of the Neo-Convicts have had America too scared to oppose his lust for empire or Jingoistic fantasies. Now we are locked in a cycle of terrorism begetting militarism and corporate fascism.

9-11 was a prelude to the war in Iraq, which is going so badly that Israel was given the green light to invade Lebanon and distract the world from the civil war there. But now that the Middle East war is going to so badly, that people start tuning out. The biggest problem the administration ever faces is when people stop being afraid of the Islamic Boogieman. When the fear disappears, some Islamic group is rounded up and made a scapegoat, and the public is told that We uncovered a terrorist plot. Which is what happened in England today.

Another problem is that people believe the colour warning system is a joke. (It is) So to make it more real to the public, all kinds of new restrictions go into effect at the airport. Average citizens can no longer take liquid Pepto-Bismol or bottled water on their flight from Deluth to Scranton. Does anyone really believe terrorists are plotting to hijack the 8:47 AM flight from Deluth to Scranton?

It’s all about fear folks. The more you are afraid the less you question.
It’s time to question. We have an election coming up in November and another one in two years. These people are criminals. You know what to do.