If you pay close attention to who rebutted the Loose Change team it was Glenn Corbett with the John Jay College (part of the CUNY) http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/ and 9-11 Commission Member Bob Kerrey, president of New School University of New York. Of course, scrolling across the bottom of the screen was the Bush admonition that we all need to put aside our differences (ignore the facts and truth) and work together on the Global War on Terror.
I thought it odd that this John Jay College expert and Paula Zahn avoided addressing WTC 7 and the fact that a simple collapse of the WTC towers would not have hit the ground as fast as the towers did. Maybe Paula Zahn and Corbett need to take a physics class at CUNY to better grasp how those towers were in free fall (gravity) and not collapsing floor-to-floor due to fire that was not on the lower floors at all. Since WTC 7 was not hit at all and had minor fires his theory that the jets brought down WTC 1 and 2 cannot apply to WTC 7 at all.
I wonder what Corbett’s translation of “Pull it” would be? Better yet, I wonder what Bob Kerrey’s interpretation of “Pull it” would be or how Al Qaeda had a damned thing to do with that? Maybe that was a Freudian slip as to what club Larry Silverstein really belongs to.
Many people wondered why the rising star of DNC suddenly dropped out of the presidential race, but never followed up on the reason why. http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j042701.html and http://www.mishalov.com/Kerrey.html . It goes even deeper than that folks as to why Bush wanted him on the 9-11 Commission. They were all hand picked for a cover up.
Come on Paula Zahn, you can do better than that! Go have a talk with Lou Dobbs! Did anyone catch the Zogby poll results they showed and how dated that was (May 2006)? There were much more current polls that show over 60% of Americans think our government should be the Al Qaeda on trial.
Bush just keeps stepping in the pile of dog crap and most of the major media just keeps pretending he did not do it.
According to a group called Jews for Peace, Lebanon was not an Israeli war, it was America’s idea and it has turned into the biggest military defeat in the history of Israel. That is what is known in some circles as Poetic [political] Justice. That is consistent with what I have reported on that matter recently. http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/publish/article_728.shtml The simple fact of the matter is the Arab world has decided they are not going to roll over for the U.S. or Israel.
As the November 2006 elections approach, I thought the list below would remind many of what they are voting for when they exercise that civic duty. It is not only a right; it is also a responsibility and a duty. That is what many Americans seem to miss regarding rights. For every right there is a responsibility, a duty as a citizen.
It is a totally pointless, waste of time exercise to not participate and then bitch and grouse about the results. Yet, many do it.
I receive many emails from people who are afraid to sign petitions yet will email the world to try and spread the truth. In the end, most of us will come to the same realization that I did in 1996 when I took a long hard look at what was going on and what I truly believe in and what I cannot support with a clear conscience.
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
- -- James Freeman Clarke
It always amazes me that in a presidential election we have about 100 million vote and 71 million eligible voters stay home and not participate. Most nations do not have 71 million people and we have 71 million non-participant spectators. People in most nations have never had the freedoms we take for granted and they would give anything if they had 71 million that would show up and vote and change their futures for the better.
This list was sent by one of the email members and it is too accurate to be funny. Any laughter would be due to the sadness of the reality, and accuracy, of these quotes.
I have to admit that I chuckled a couple of times but I recognized it as that knot in my stomach and a nervous laugh knowing that November 2006 will produce no solutions that America needs to fix the mess we are all in. It is a waste of time and money, no solutions at the end of the tunnel from RNC or DNC.
True Pearls of Wisdom about Government
1. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress, but then I repeat myself.
......Mark Twain -
2. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
......Winston Churchill -
3. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
......George Bernard Shaw -
4. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
......James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994) -
5. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
......Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University -
6. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
......P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian -
7. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
......Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850) -
8. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it .......Ronald Reagan (1986) -
9. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts
.....Will Rogers -
10. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
.....P.J. O'Rourke -
11. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
....Voltaire (1764) -
12. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
....Pericles (430 BC.) -
13. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the Legislature is in session.
....Mark Twain (1866) -
14. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
....Unknown -
15. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
....Winston Churchill -
16. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
....Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995) -
17. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
...Thomas Jefferson -
Actually, my favorite one is by Will Rogers and it is not on the list:
But with Congress — every time they make a joke it's a law. And every time they make a law it's a joke.
Will Rogers
He is attributed on several others I like too:
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
We hold the distinction of being the only nation that is goin' to the poorhouse in an automobile.
I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.
You've got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one.
My favorite modern day political comedian is Will Durst. http://www.willdurst.com/WillQuotes.html
Warren Buffet has decided to give 85% of his money to…Bill Gates. The only guy in the entire world richer than he is. Had a 6 billion to 1 shot of giving it to somebody poorer than him and blew it.
For we political comics, Bush is a cornucopia of delights. Like if Reagan and Quayle had a kid. He’s Quagan.
Bush’s poll numbers are lower than a puppy eating cobra and the Democrats still have less traction than a roller skating giraffe on ice.
I would love to pick on the Democrats. But there’s nothing there. It's like trying to nail jello to tree. Or stapling smoke. Can’t even accuse the Dems of being afraid of their own shadow because at this point, I’m not sure they actually cast one. Besides, it's hard to see your shadow when you’re head’s so far up your butt you can tickle your spleen with your elbow. If the Democrats were a horse, the only humane thing to do would be to shoot them.
When the going gets tough, the tough arrange photo ops.
The President said “failure is not an option,” so apparently it comes as a factory installed standard feature.
When I still lived in Arkansas the citizens of that state would get very nervous when the State Legislature was in town because during that brief period of time the Democratic-controlled House and Senate would put forth more goofy crap than even Washington, DC can dream up. Most citizens of Arkansas know most of the foregoing quotes by heart with just a little twist of being relevant to their lives in Arkansas. Bill Clinton showed that state how low that low could be and then he went to the White House to show the world what he had learned.
He proved that Paul Greenberg was right; Bill Clinton has no principles to compromise.
It took me about 9 months after Bush was sworn in back in 2001 to see that George W. Bush has the same character flaw, and in watching Congress since 9-11 it is clear to me that 99% of them have that same character flaw. I think Bush wanted to be President so he could set the record on how much vacation time a president can take since he does that more than work. The only other things he does well is lie and blow money faster than any president in U.S. history. He must come up with all of his idiot ideas on how to waste money and line the right pockets while lounging on vacation.
These are not people of honor or integrity. These are not people who are hemmed in by the truth. These are not people who share American’s vision of what We the People want America to be.
Even these sleazy attacks by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and even McCain on other Americans are being seen for what it is; lack of character on display and people desperate to get you to look the other way.
That list above should have what Vaclav Havel said for it is on target too but there is nothing even remotely worded to suggest humor. It is just hard cold facts served hard and cold.
The former Czech leader Vaclav Havel wrote:
“In this state of things, it is the duty of politicians to bring back to life this potential, timid and lethargic, to show it a way, to clear a passage for it, to render it assurance, a chance to come forth -- in brief, hope. It is said that a people gets the politicians it deserves. This is true up to a point: politicians are in effect the mirror of society, and a sort of incarnation of its potential. Paradoxically, the opposite is also true: society mirrors its politicians, because it is largely up to the politicians to determine which forces are liberated, which are held in check, to choose what they depend on, whether on the best or the worst in each citizen.”
Since we have 100 million that vote on party lines and rabid partisanship and 71 million spectators that stay home, I submit that our politicians do in fact bring out the worst in Americans.
Even as these elections loom on the horizon, Bush and Congress are trying to lie and mislead us into another war. Evidently they do not profit from experience and have learned nothing in Iraq. Even the sketchy reports from Afghanistan indicate that things are not hunky-dory there either.
This is just out, September 15, 2006:
