...This double game goes back to 9/11. That terrorist attack was basically planned, executed and funded by radical Pakistanis and Saudis. And we responded by invading Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? The short answer is because Pakistan has nukes that we fear and Saudi Arabia has oil that we crave.A "decent, democratizing government"? Funny, but as I recall, the original rationale for the Iraq war went something like this.
So we tried to impact them by indirection. We hoped that building a decent democratizing government in Iraq would influence reform in Saudi Arabia and beyond.
Reform-minded lawmakers in both the House and Senate are pushing legislation to bolster the work-safety protections for miners working underground. But don't try to convince Rand Paul.What an imbecile – as noted here, The Miner Safety and Health Act of 2010 (H.R. 5663) was introduced about a month ago in response to the Massey Upper Big Branch mine disaster, the latest in an awful series, as noted here.
The Republican running to replace outgoing Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) in the coal-mining hub of Kentucky said recently that Washington has no business formulating mine safety rules.
"The bottom line is: I'm not an expert, so don't give me the power in Washington to be making rules," Paul said at a recent campaign stop in response to questions about April's deadly mining explosion in West Virginia, according to a profile in Details magazine. "You live here, and you have to work in the mines. You'd try to make good rules to protect your people here. If you don't, I'm thinking that no one will apply for those jobs."
To support a senator who actually would work on behalf of Kentuckians in the U.S. Senate as opposed to Paul (who would do his best to implement the know-nothing, do-nothing teabagger agenda), click here.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has placed a hold on President Obama's nominee to serve as director of national intelligence (DNI), his spokeswoman said Monday.Yes, I realize that, at the heart of this, we have nothing but more pointless grandstanding by Senator “Country First,” especially when he voted in favor of Clapper’s nomination to pass him from the Intelligence Committee. However, I think we need to keep the following in mind about Gen. Clapper (here)…
Spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan confirmed a report that that the Arizona senator has requested a report from retired Gen. James Clapper, and said "until that report is provided Senator McCain will continue to hold his nomination."
The hold, a procedural tool individual senators can use to block nominations, could push Clapper's confirmation vote before the full Senate past the August recess, which begins this weekend.
In a unanimous vote last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee, of which McCain is a member, backed Clapper's nomination, leading observers to believe that he would be easily confirmed this week.
Liberal critics are pointing out that Clapper, while serving as the head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, helped assist the Bush administration lie that Iraq possessed illegal weapons of mass destruction. Speaking to reporters in October 2003, Clapper suggested that the illicit weapons had “unquestionably” been moved to Syria:And as noted here, the claim has since been denied.
It’s possible that Clapper is a genuinely decent man who, like many other people on both sides of the aisle, was thoroughly and tragically wrong in the run-up to the Iraq war. But just stand up and say so on this charge in particular before we proceed with you nomination, please.
Barack Hussein Obama did not sneak into power. An army of clueless, disconnected, ignorant Americans invited him to bring his Marxist, glaringly anti-American jihad into our lives.OK, that’s enough (oy vay!).
And get a load of the pic of Obama photoshopped onto the head and shoulders of Mao Tse-Tung. ROFLMAO!!
I realize there are all kinds of directions I can go with this idiocy, but I just want to point out the following in particular (and this is going to take a minute, so please bear with me)…
Everything from the New Deal and Great Society on has been a dismal and grossly counterproductive failure, yet we continue to allow corrupt bureaucrats to keep jamming more of the same down our throats with barely a whimper of resistance. How pathetic. How lame. How un-American.Now, as you try to digest that (difficult, I’ll admit), read the section of Nugent’s bio here that tells us that “He is also noted for his conservative political views and his ardent defense of hunting, conservation, and gun ownership rights.”
So let’s focus on conservation for a minute, OK?
This tells us about the Civilian Conservation Corps, a product of – wait for it! – The New Deal (ta-daah!)…
The CCC became the most popular New Deal program among the general public, providing jobs for a total of 3 million young men from families on relief.[1] Implicitly the CCC also led to awareness and appreciation of the outdoors and the nation's natural resources, especially for city youth.[2] The CCC was never considered a permanent program and depended on emergency and temporary legislation for its existence.[3] On June 30, 1942 Congress voted to eliminate funding for the CCC, formally ceasing active operation of the program.[4]And this is something that “conservation” fan Nugent somehow didn’t know?
During the time of the CCC, volunteers planted nearly 3 billion trees to help reforest America, constructed more than 800 parks nationwide that would become the start of most state parks, developed forest fire fighting methods and a network of thousands of miles of public roadways, and constructed buildings connecting the nation's public lands.[5]
How pathetic. How lame. How un-American.
Over the weekend, I attended the “Uni-Tea” rally at Independence Park in Philadelphia. The event was billed as a “united tea party for all communities.” Just a few steps from the Liberty Bell, a group of about 300 gathered — blacks, whites, Latinos, and Log Cabin Republicans. The weather was warm and so were the spirits of the assembled. Emcee David Webb, an African-American talk-radio host, summed up the proceedings early on as he looked out at the crowd. “Ebony and ivory,” he said. “It’s not just a song.”Oh, go “fa-la-la” yourselves, wingnuts – as noted here (from an account that is actually reliable)...
Perhaps the event failed to attract many people of color because it failed to attract many people. Organizers boasted that the event’s website had been visited 2 million times, and it was “clear from the large numbers of volunteers and the 1,500 bottles the organizers put on ice that they expected a big crowd to turn out.” In the end, about only 300 people bothered showing up. Organizers blamed traffic.Tee hee hee...
And gosh, nobody brought any of their charming signs either (funny, but as I recall, that word is spelled with an “e”).
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