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Posted on June 12 at 9:45 a.m.
RE: “Our government eventually does what is right,”
EVENTUALLY is definitely the key word here!
Maybe in 20 years there will be a Medicare-type system for everyone. This is Lois' sneaky way of distracting everyone from the core issue: A majority of my constituents want universal single payer healthcare, but I get a lot of campaign contributions from BIG insurance companies; what shall I do? Change the subject. If we stopped wasting billions and billions of dollars on WAR spending we could have the best health insurance system in the world. Let's get our priorities straight, shall we?
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Posted on April 17 at 10:06 p.m.
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
-Jeannette Rankin
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Posted on February 18 at 10:08 a.m.
LivinginSB:
RE: They're college kids. They're going to drink. And more power to them. College is about learning your limits and when to say when.
I always thought colleges were for getting an education.
Turning a blind eye to underage drinking (minor consumption) is not the thing to do.
Denial is not a river in Egypt. We need more education on substance abuse for college students, maybe a required course.
Drunk drivers under the age of 21 are just as dangerous as old fart alcoholics, sometime they take out entire families in drunk driving accidents. But that's okay they were merely learning their limits and when to say when?
That is complete BS, in my opinion, of course.
Posted on June 18 at 2:54 p.m.
Torture is wrong, McSame flip-flops on his stance on torture.
A vote for McCain is voting for more war crimes to be committed with our tax dollars. Mccain = W's third term!
My conservative republican friends can't stand Bush or McSame.
Gas prices are hitting all-time highs. Our country is in the midst of a recession thanks in part to our crippling dependence on oil, so what's John McCain's plan? Will he hold the corporate leaders of the energy industry accountable when he addresses them today in Houston? Probably not, considering they are some of his biggest fund-raisers.
The Center for Responsive Politics finds that McCain has accepted over $1 million from the oil and gas industry. Many of McCain's top advisers have lobbied for big oil, which is why he now acts in their best interests, opposing environmental legislation and alternative energy plans. And that's exactly why we want everyone to know The REAL McCain.
Posted on January 27 at 7 p.m.
jqb wrote: Obama would draw down a brigade per month from Iraq -- that is change.
A brigade is 3,000 soldiers, more or less. With the 160,000 troops in Iraq, it would take him over 4 years, his entire first term, to bring all the soldiers home. Edwards is the only one of the three that is opposed to permanent military bases in Iraq...Hillary is the worst Hawk, maybe she is only talking tough, but has not taken Nuking Iran off the table. Beware the Military Industrial Complex, Eisenhower is spinning in his grave at our choices this election!
Posted on November 20 at 7:53 p.m.
The strategy -- if publicly announced plans can be termed a strategy -- follows.
Firstly, the people must understand the process of impeachment. They must be advised that we seek to bring Mr. Bush to trial in the Senate and that the "bringing" process is impeachment. Too many citizens believe that impeachment is the end of the process rather than its beginning.
Secondly, we must thrust upon the members of the House of Representatives -- our employees -- the depth of our feeling and the rightness of our position. The public evidence is so clear that the least educated of their constituents know it, yet our Representatives dawdle in inquiry
Posted on September 27 at 3 p.m.
Rudy Giuliani exploiting FEAR for power and personal gain!
Franklin Roosevelt’s words ring true again today.
And, clarified and amplified, they are just as current now as they were when first he spoke them, 74 years ago.
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself” — and those who would exploit our fear, for power and for their own personal, selfish, cynical, gain.
We actually have nothing to fear but Rudy!
Scum-sucking opportunist!
and I mean that in a Loving and Caring way!
Posted on September 15 at 3:56 p.m.
IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY TOWNHALL MEETUP HAS OVER 2000 SIGNATURES
WE NEED TO PUT PRESSURE ON THE CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR TO GO AHEAD WITH THE IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION!!
ESPECIALLY THE MEMBERS WHO ARE UP FOR RE-ELECTION
DAS WILLIAMS (says he won't put impeachment on the Agenda, but will vote for it if someone else does; Also offered to distribute Impeachment literature in Ventura County (like that will convince his other city council members to support impeachment???)
HELENE SCHNEIDER (if you can only send one fax - send to Helene, she is on the fence, big time!)
AND BRIAN BARNWELL... (said he would join Mayor Blum to put impeachment on the agenda, now backing off until after he is re-elected!)
PHONE CITY HALL: (805) 564-5325, LEAVE A VOICE MAIL FOR EACH ONE URGING THEM TO PUT IMPEACHMENT ON THE AGENDA IMMEDIATELY AND TO SUPPORT THE US CONSTITUTION, WHICH THEY TOOK AN OATH TO SUPPORT AND DEFEND!!
YOU CAN ALSO FAX THEM AT (805) 564-5475
COME TO THE MEETUP TO MEET DAVE LINDORFF, MONDAY SEPT 17TH
RSVP AT HTTP://IMPEACHBUSH.MEETUP.COM/378
Posted on September 13 at 10:33 a.m.
Obama’s “newfound” withdrawal strategy
as too little, too late, too politically convenient
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich today challenged Democratic rival Barack Obama’s “newfound” Iraq strategy as “too little, too late, and too politically contrived and convenient to be credible or persuasive.”
Kucinich, the only Democratic Presidential candidate who voted against the original Iraq war authorization in 2002 and every supplemental war appropriation since, said Obama’s announcement today of a “new approach” to Iraq is “sorely wanting at every level.”
“With all due respect to my friend and colleague, his newfound strategy for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is too little, too late, and too politically contrived and convenient to be credible or persuasive,” Kucinich said.
“While Senator Obama is now struggling mightily to establish himself as the Party’s leading advocate of ending the war and bringing our troops home, until recently, his record shows that he voted for every re-authorization of the war by approving of every additional spending measure placed before him by the Bush Administration.
“He gave one highly publicized and highly promoted speech against the war before he was elected to the U.S. Senate. But, starting in 2004, when he was elected to do more than give speeches, his votes show that he bought the lies and paid for the war over and over again. It was only a few months ago – when he became a candidate for the Presidency – that he decided it was politically inconvenient to keep supporting the President, keep supporting the war, and keep supporting the diversion of hundreds of billions of dollars from our crucial domestic priorities.
“The Senator’s call for what’s being described as ‘an immediate withdrawal’ is actually an unacceptable, inadequate, and disingenuous campaign tactic that leaves our brave men and women in Iraq at risk and in jeopardy until the end of next year. They need to come home now. The war needs to end now. The Congress needs to stop supporting the President’s failed policies now.
“I welcome the Senator’s late arrival to the debate I began in 2002 when I led the opposition in the Congress to going to war. I’m glad that he has finally joined me in a call for more international involvement to stabilize the situation. I also appreciate his new willingness to support my call for additional spending to help Iraqi citizens whose lives and property have been destroyed by this war.
“After almost three years, the Senator has finally recognized that he has a lot of catching up to do. What America needs is a leader, not someone who spends years struggling to catch up,” Kucinich concluded.
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Posted on August 28 at 10:45 a.m.
When all this settles we will have a much better health care system in the US. Obama is trying to pass this bill in a bi-partisan fashion; what will probably end up happening is that the democrats will figure out they will get no cooperation from the republicans and they will RAM the bill through congress and Obama will sign the bill. It will contain a strong public option. The right-wing demographic is shrinking, nothing makes me happier! I listened to the choir at church one Sunday sing a song called "They will know we are Christians by our Love" Who can call themselves Christian when they hate so deeply? Jesus would have loved illegal aliens just as much as he loved everyone else.
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