Lionel,

Laura Ingraham gets time on CNN and Ed Schultz can't get on Armed Forces Radio like Rush??

Best clip for little Laura;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkMI5t6WVMs

'America loves 24.. Jack Bower..' equals a referendumb on whether it's ok to use 'tough tactics' on AlQuaida operatives...   Wonder what else is in her video collection?

Now, the Sutherlands, father and son, as well as the cute daughter on '24', are Canadians.. hmm..

I guess that means Canada is the logical place for your secret torture outsourcing.. we can be really nasty.. we just apologise a lot for it.  (In reality our troops, especially snipers, kick butt in Afghanistan where there are real taliban etc..) 

Cheers,

Rick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uApZuZ6RPy4

'Sorry about your white house. I see you've re-built it. It's very nice.'

This was a while back; wonder if those people fleeing figure there's no hope in '08; trying to beat the rush?

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The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the last week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration.

The re-election of President Bush is prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they will soon be required to hunt, pray and agree with Bill O’Reilly.

Canadian border farmers say it’s not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal rights activists, liberal Quakers and Unitarians crossing their fields at night.

“I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in my barn,” said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota.  The producer was cold, exhausted, and hungry.  “He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken.  When I said I didn’t have any, he left. Didn’t even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?”

In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them.  So he tried installing speakers that blare Rush Limbaugh across the fields. “Not real effective” he said.  “The liberals still got through, and Rush annoyed the cows so much they stopped giving milk.”

Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them across the border and leave them to fend for themselves.  “A lot of these people are not prepared for rugged conditions,” an Ontario border patrolman said.  “I found one carload without a drop of drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet, though.”

When liberals are caught, they’re sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives.  Rumors have been circulating about the Bush administration establishing re-education camps in which liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and watch NASCAR races.

In the days since the election, liberals have turned to sometimes ingenious ways of crossing the border.  Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs.  After catching a half-dozen young vegans disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen passengers.  “If they can’t identify the accordion player on the Lawrence Welk Show, we get suspicious about their age,” an official said.

Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon movies.  “I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can’t support them,” an Ottawa resident said. “How many art history majors does one country need?”

In an effort to ease tensions between the United States and Canada, Vice President Dick Cheney met with the Canadian ambassador and pledged that the administration would take steps to reassure liberals, a source close to Cheney said.  “We’re going to have some Peter, Paul and Mary concerts.  And we might put some endangered species on postage stamps.  The president is determined to reach out,” he said.

Cheers,

Rick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uApZuZ6RPy4

'Sorry about your white house. I see you've re-built it. It's very nice.'

Lionel,

Do you read? I mean really, come on. This blog of yours has reported on Tillman's death since last week.

Where have you been? Are your producers doing the best job they can? Please do not imply that you have this blog here just for the few dozen that visit in a day and not for you guys to learn as well.

And here we all thought that you paid attention! Here is a more recent article about the cover-up of Pat Tillman's death.

Please read, not just about Tillman, but about 9/11 as well. You'll have so many less questions, so many more answers, and no more doubt as to who really pulled off the worst terrorist attack in our history.   

Take the bull by the horns and make history instead of acting surprised to hear news that the rest of us know from days ago! 

FYI - 9/11 was an inside job - ask questions, demand answers! 

Camcorder Video a parade with a friend, GET INTERROGATED, SUMMONS, FINED. The fine will be waived if you have a permit and $1M insurance coverage for about $1K but you will be questioned, your actions documented and unveiled by police arbitrarily.

Why? Because it's a POST 9/11 WORLD!!!

Take Action

The city is considering comments about the proposed regulations until August 3rd. After that the regulations could pass into law. Here are some steps that you can take now:

http://www.pictureny.org/?cat=4

http://citizenspeak.org/node/1123

http://www.pictureny.org/?p=51#comment-90

blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch/ ... Beka Economopoulos

I hope there aren't too many Shamika's in the Army... be careful girl!

Tim the Wellstone Democrat

Listening on WCPT Chicago and XM sattelite

It is the absolute responsibility of everybody in uniform to disobey  an
order that is either illegal or immoral. General Peter Pace

There's a old family heirloom, that I've been promised, that's been in
my family since about the time of the American Civil War, or some time
before that, that's a unique military award, that was given to one of my
ancestors by a Prussian King.

This relative of mine was supposed to *not* engage the enemy in a
certain battle, but he went ahead and disobeyed that particular order
and won the battle, which as it it turns out, was a decisive one, so
instead of being relieved of duty and being sent to the brig, to be made
an example of, he got the award instead.

As far as what Joint Chief of Staff USMC General Pace says above,
it sounds real good, and everybody from a 2nd Looie, on up,
will utter some variant of it to those below them, but the practical
reality for the ground pounding grunt, the one that's stuck having to
follow the order, is that even after the smoke clears, and the dust
settles, good luck getting anyone to see your side of it.

For every Jessica Lynch that testifies before Congress about military
malfeasance, there are thousands of stories that will never see the
light of day.

Thank you, Shamika, and good luck. 

~Nyc Alberts, Digital Components
I'd Rather Be A Matin' Than A Hatin'

http://www.tompaine.com/print/the_cheneygates_cabal.php

Neoconservatives Eat Their Own

Former allies are among those now denouncing him. The abandonment is enough to pin down even an old wrestler like Rumsfeld, but perhaps the most unkindest cut of all came from longstanding supporter “Cakewalk Ken� Adelman who, like other neoconservatives, have turned mercilessly on their old, now discredited friend. In an interview for David Rose’s “Neo Culpa� in Vanity Fair, Adelman came across as feeling jilted.

We’re losing in Iraq... I’ve worked with [Rumsfeld] three times in my life. I’ve been to each of his houses in Chicago, Taos, Santa Fe, Santo Domingo, and Las Vegas. I’m very, very fond of him, but I’m crushed by his performance. Did he change, or were we wrong in the past? Or is it that he was never really challenged before? I don’t know. He certainly fooled me.

As the saying goes, with friends like that, who needs Hillary? ...Or a pummeling by the Army-Navy-Air Force-Marine Corps Times?

I almost feel sorry for Donald Rumsfeld (and I’m not just saying that because, with the “Military Commissions Act� now signed into law, he can declare me—or anyone—an unlawful enemy combatant and “disappear� me into some black hole for the rest of my days). What betrayal. What disingenuousness. Et tu , Cakewalk Ken? The neoconservatives are attempting to push the blame onto Rumsfeld for the debacle they authored. Parallel attempts by administration officials to scapegoat Rumsfeld will be equally transparent and unconvincing.

Yes, Lionel Lover isn't doing a very good job representing himself today.

Yes, the copy and pasted articles are full of information and such, but there is something highly obnoxious about them being thrusted onto a blog like that. I usually ignore them, I come here to read and (though not that much these days) participate in a discussion about the actual show.

I'm sick and tired of hearing about how Lionel doesn't believe in the 9/11 truth movement. It's been repeated by posters on this blog many, many times that he has done entire shows on the subject (in favor of it) in the past, yet those notices are constantly ignored and I keep seeing "OMG, LIONEL IS TEH IGNORANT"-ish comments here.

Believe me, I understand where you're coming from. I wouldn't try and stop you either, as I am aware that they are valuable and that you're looking to spread the word. When I find them obnoxious, it's only because sometimes copy and pasted articles are all I see when I'm looking to see what other people are saying, and not just pasting what someone else said.

By all means, keep sharing the news. I might not read all of it, but others do, and that's great.

Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?
by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis

It is time to think about the "unthinkable."

The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election.

The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don't know.

But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.

The real question is not how or when they might do it. It's how, realistically, we can stop them.

In Florida 2000, Team Bush had a game plan involving a handful of tactics. With Jeb Bush in the governor's mansion, the GOP used a combination of disenfranchisement, intimidation, faulty ballots, electronic voting fraud, a rigged vote count and an aborted recount, courtesy of the US Supreme Court.

A compliant Democrat (Al Gore) allowed the coup to be completed.

In Ohio 2004, the arsenal of dirty tricks exploded. Based in Columbus , we have documented more than a hundred different tactics used to steal the 20 electoral votes that gave Bush a second term. More are still surfacing. As a result of the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit (in which we are plaintiff and attorney) we have now been informed that 56 of the 88 counties in Ohio violated federal law by destroying election records, thus preventing a definitive historical recount.

As in 2000, a compliant Democrat (John Kerry) allowed the coup to proceed.

For 2008 we expect the list of vote theft maneuvers to escalate yet again. We are already witnessing a coordinated nationwide drive to destroy voter registration organizations and to disenfranchise millions of minority, poor and young voters.

This carefully choreographed campaign is complemented by the widespread use of electronic voting machines. As reported by the Government Accountability Office, Princeton University , the Brennan Center , the Carter-Baker Commission, US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and others, these machines can be easily used to flip an election. They were integral to stealing both the 2000 and 2004 elections. Efforts to make their source codes transparent, or to require a usable paper trail on a federal level, have thus far failed. A discriminatory Voter ID requirement may also serve as the gateway to a national identification card.

Overall, the GOP will have at its command even more weapons of election theft in 2008 than it did in Ohio 2004, which jumped exponentially from Florida 2000. The Rovian GOP is nothing if not tightly organized to do this with ruthless efficiency. Expect everything that was used these past two presidential elections to surface again in 2008 in far more states, with far more efficiency, and many new dirty tricks added in.

But in Ohio 2006, the GOP learned a hard lesson. Its candidate for governor was J. Kenneth Blackwell. The Secretary of State was the essential on-the-ground operative in the theft of Ohio 2004.

When he announced for governor, many Ohioans joked that "Ken Blackwell will never lose an election where he counts the votes."

But lose he did….along with the GOP candidates for Secretary of State, Attorney-General and US Senate.

By our calculations, despite massive grassroots scrutiny, the Republicans stole in excess of 6% of the Ohio vote in 2006. But they still lost.

Why? Because they were so massively unpopular that even a 6% bump couldn't save them. Outgoing Governor Bob Taft, who pled guilty to four misdemeanors while in office, left town with a 7% approval rating (that's not a typo). Blackwell entered the last week of the campaign down 30% in some polls.

So while the GOP still had control of the electoral machinery here in 2006, the public tide against them was simply too great to hold back, even through the advanced art and science of modern Rovian election theft.

In traditional electoral terms, that may also be the case in 2008. Should things proceed as they are now, it's hard to imagine any Republican candidate going into the election within striking distance. The potential variations are many, but the graffiti on the wall is clear.

What's also clear is that this administration has a deep, profound and uncompromised contempt for democracy, for the rule of law, and for the US Constitution. When George W. Bush went on the record (twice) as saying he has nothing against dictatorship, as long as he can be dictator, it was a clear and present policy statement.

Who really believes this crew will walk quietly away from power? They have the motivation, the money and the method for doing away with the electoral process altogether. So why wouldn't they?

The groundwork for dismissal of both the legislative and judicial branch has been carefully laid. The litany is well-known, but worth a very partial listing:

The continuation of the drug war, and the Patriot Act, Homeland Security Act and other dictatorial laws prompted by the 9/11/2001 terror attacks, have decimated the Bill of Rights, and shredded the traditional American right to due process of law, freedom from official surveillance, arbitrary violence, and far more.

The current Attorney-General, Alberto Gonzales, has not backed away from his announcement to Congress that the Constitution does not guarantee habeas corpus. The administration continues to act on the assumption that it can arrest anyone at any time and hold them without notification or trial for as long as it wants.

The establishment of the Homeland Security Agency has given it additional hardware to decimate the basic human rights of our citizenry. Under the guise of dealing with the "immigration problem," large concentration camps are under construction around the US .

The administration has endorsed and is exercising its "right" to employ torture, contrary to the Eighth Amendment and to a wide range of international treaties, which Gonzales has labeled "quaint."

With more than 200 "signing statements" the administration acts on its belief that the "unitary executive" trumps the power of the legislative branch in any instance it chooses. This belief has been further enforced with the administration's use of a wide range of precedent-setting arguments to keep its functionaries from testifying before Congress.

There is much more. In all instances, the 109th Congress---and the public---have rolled over without significant resistance.

Most crucial now are Presidential Directive #51, Executive Orders #13303, #13315, #13350, #13364, #13422, #13438, and more, by which Bush has granted himself an immense arsenal of powers for which the term "dictatorial" is a modest understatement.

The Founders established our government with checks and balances. But executive orders have accumulated important precedent. The Emancipation Proclamation by which Lincoln declared an end to slavery in the South, was issued under the "military necessity" of adding blacks to the Union Army, a step without which the North might not have won the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order #8802 established the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Harry Truman's Executive Order #9981 desegregated the military.

Most to the point, FDR's Executive Order #9066 ordered the forcible internment of 100,000 people of Japanese descent into the now infamous concentration camps of World War II.

There is also precedent for a president overriding the Supreme Court. In the 1830s Chief Justice John Marshall enshrined the right of the Cherokee Nation to sovereignty over its ancestral land in the Appalachian Mountains . But President Andrew Jackson scorned the decision. Some 14,000 native Americans were moved at gunpoint to Oklahoma . More than 3,000 died along the way.

All this will be relevant should Team Bush envision a defeat in the 2008 election and decide to call it off. It's well established that Richard Nixon---mentor to Karl Rove and Dick Cheney---commissioned the Huston Plan, which detailed how to cancel the 1972 election.

Today we must ask: who would stop this administration from taking dictatorial power in the instance of a "national emergency" such as a terror attack at a nuclear power plant or something similar?

Nothing in the behavior of this Congress indicates that it is capable of significant resistance. Impeachment seems beyond it. Nor does it seem Congress would actually remove Bush if it did put him on trial.

Short of that, Bush clearly does not view anything Congress might do as a meaningful impediment. After all, how many divisions does the Congress command?

The Supreme Court, as currently constituted, would almost certainly rubber stamp a Bush coup. If not, like Jackson , he could ignore it as easily as he would ignore Congress.

What does that leave? There is much idle speculation now about what the armed forces would do. We also hear loose talk about "90 million gun owners."

From the public side, the only conceivable counter-force might be a national strike or an effective long-term campaign of general non-cooperation.

But we can certainly assume the mainstream media will give lock-step support to whatever the regime says and does. It's also a given that those likely to lead the resistance will immediately land in those new prisons being built by Halliburton et. al.

So how do we cope with the harsh realities of such a Bush/Cheney/Rove dictatorial coup?

We may have about a year to prepare. Every possible scenario needs to be discussed in excruciating detail.

For only one thing is certain: denial will do nothing.

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HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is at www.solartopia.org, along with SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030. The FITRAKIS FILES are at www.freepress.org (where this article was originally published), along with HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA'S 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING 2008, which Bob and Harvey co-wrote.