Best way top get things done with a newspaper.... contact the advertisers and let them know there are plenty of products and services available from other advertisers who DON'T support this kind of material.

Posted at March 8, 2007 6:57 PM in response to Radio Contact Made With President Of Ann Coulter's Syndicate!

Picture this...
Ms Coulter, two months from now...
running down the list of papers that dropped her, mumbling..
f@gg&%, f@gg&%, f@gg&%, while standing there alone, looking in the mirror.
Seems like a happy ending to me!

Posted at March 9, 2007 7:09 PM in response to And A Seventh Paper Gives The Hook To Coulter

Let's see now...
Impeachable... yes or no

Withholding information from Congress/public concerning Iraq threat...
no

Lying to Congress/public concerning firing officials who leaked information about Valorie Plame...
no

Lying to Congress/public concerning threat of Iran...
no

Apparently, nobody in Congress or the Senate has bothered to read the Federalist papers concerning withholding and swaying information by the president concerning military threats as justification for impeachment...

Our leaders have all abandoned "We the People" and are instead vying for position as our democracy falls....

Posted at December 5, 2007 12:01 AM in response to NeoCons Go Ballistic on Iran NIE

With $200 billion (1/2 the military budget), we could fully solar power every home in the United states in 8 years.

With $200 billion all of our homeless could own homes.

With $200 billion we could feed the entire world

With $200 billion we could put in high speed rails across the country in a couple of years

but if we did that, we couldn't kill near as many people... and killing people seems to be much more important to us than the other alternatives...

Posted at September 3, 2007 9:48 PM in response to Being the Fed Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry

I live in Idaho (Okay... it's 600 feet from Oregon) but I have no problems with Risch taking Craig's place. I believe there are now a dozen Republican Congressmen and Senators either gone, indicted, or under serious investigation... not including those who are choosing to retire.

November, 2008 elections are over a year away. At the current rate of attrition, there's a good chance Risch will be under investigation, indicted, or in prison before reelection. In fact, at the current rate, another 10 or 12 of those fine folks who brought us the Iraq War, torture, suspension of habeas corpus, etc... will be gone for one reason or another.

I just hope we don't make the mistake of voting their clones into office...

Posted at September 2, 2007 1:18 AM in response to Meet the New Hypocrite...

These guys are civil servants. Have you ever taken a good look at the hurdles you would have to go through to even have a negative comment put in their file, let alone actually terminate their employment?

The civli service regs have been put into place through the years by discussions held between attorneys hired by the civil service employees, and civil service attorneys hired by the administrators. Anyone want to take an educated guess as to which side wins?

The sad fact is, these folks may be top notched agents or.... they could be morons. We have no way of knowing which is which, and both have permanent jobs with pensions. There IS no accountability.

Why do you suppose it takes ten times as much funding to keep a government agency operating just enough to allow them to stand up every year and complain they are understaffed and underpaid The FDA just did this recently after the bad food and drug scare although their budget shows the agency budget has doubled, and it has 20% more employees than six years ago.

Apparently, congressional oversight is pretty much sightless... it's main function, as you can see everytime a congressman stands up and praises government employees at each speech (it's actually a requirement at many local levels...part of the union contract).

This is what's so frustrating about our involvement in Iraq. Most citizens are acutely aware of the inability of any agency to actually be trusted for performance. The Senate, Congress, and Administration, who are chronically involved with these same agencies just jumped right on the bandwagon to send our servicemen/women to their deaths, along with multitudes of Iraqi men, women, and children (including unborn fetuses still in the womb, for you Bush supporting so called pro life Christian Republicans).

Posted at August 22, 2007 9:48 AM in response to The Pre 9-11 Failure of CIA Leaders

It's because our culture would rather deny a wrong than to see it for it really is and attempt to correct the mistake.

Most of these clowns were involve with the war effort and are just as culpable as the admininstration.. We seem to for get that the evidence presented at the time did NOT sway for the weapons of mass destruction, but directly AGAINST it.

the only things I remember (please correct me if I am wrong) shown to support the existence of these weapons, is the testimoney of one Iraq official with NO believability, and the rantings of Hussein.

The administration made a case that Hussein himself bragged about the weapons... interesting, since this is the ONLY instance the administration EVER believe him. In fact, anyone who has ever talked to folks from that part of the world (including our spies, even as inept as they were later to be presented) knows, this is a way their culture negotiates. We are seeing the same rhetoric continually from almost everyone newsworthy in the mideast. WE will most likely be attacking Iran next, and use this same reasoning as one of the excuses.

During this same time (prior to attacking), we had United Nation inspectors searching, questioning, and assessing all the data coming in from actual, first hand (as opposed to 2nd and 3rd hand heresay from unknown and disreputable sourses) experience.

I believe, from everything I remember, these folks who WE were supporting, relying upon, and giving the responsibility to... these folks were adament that they could find NO instances of ANY WMDs.

The administration stated their belief (whether actual or construed) that there was a real danger. Both THEY AND CONGRESS had access to the UN reports. Both THEY AND CONGRESS had access to relevant info, and both THEY AND GONGRESS chose to wage war, when the overwhelming, first hand proof was completely opposing their actions.

We are paying the consequence of the actions of many of these folks who now want us to forget just what they have done to (yes, I meant "to", not "for") this nation. Apparently, from the looks of their donations and fans, it's working quite well.

Of course, if they were truly angry, they would have to take a good look at themselves... and maybe live with who they REALLY are, not just who they BELIEVE they are.... IMHO

Posted at August 20, 2007 6:00 PM in response to Democratic Debate and Iraq: Where's The Outrage?

How is it that innocent people can die by the hundreds and thousands thanks to policy decisions made by Americans and nobody here is held accountable.

One of the consequences we are paying for a representative for of government is, by allowing our servants in Washington more and more power, we have inadvertantly given them the ability to setup a separation... wall... between them and the common folk.

This last little ethics bill passed by Congress is a good example. Any punishment involved with ethics violations will be burdoned by lobbiests, not congressmen. This was not a function of party. Both Reps and Dems agreed to this.

Exactly the same thing is occurring when one (or many) in charge decides it is to our benefit to attack another country, or assassinate a leader. they are pretty much exempt from consequences of thieir actions.

In essence, what has happened over a length of time is that we have come to a point in our history that the ONE major difference between our "democracy" and a dictatorship is that a dictator can have consequences (hanging), whereas in our "democracy", the only repercussion is that the important people committing the attrocities might be voted out and become less important.

The end result of this, of course, is an end to democracy and freedom and the full circle back to dictatorship. We are quickly seeing this occur. Although the rhetoric from above continues to be fear of external forces (terrorists), their actions tell an exact opposite story.

We have no border walls. Whether or not you believe we should have border walls, the powers to be have not erected them. If there was any concern for their (or our) lives at all, the 1st thing which would have occurred after 9/11 would have been border control. Instead, crowd control (a means of protecting them from us) has been enhanced. If you take a good look at the spying, secrecy, hiring of hundreds of thousands of more folks with weapons and arrest powers... notice the guards at Social Security office, mental health offices, other government buildings? These are all means of separating and protecting government employees and offricials from the disgruntled crowds, not terrorists.

I keep hearing about being in the Mideast because of oil..

This is nonsense. We are in the mideast to to support those who desire power, to stay in power. Today it's oil and defense contractors (guess how many congessmen and senators have defense contractors working in their districts?. Tomorrow, it will be something else. If it were oil, how's this for a scenario. We take $200 billion from our defense budget. This would cut our budget in half so we would only be spending about 1/4 of the world's defense budgetinstead of 1/2.

This much money would allow ALL of our homes in the United States to be completely self sufficient in 8 years. We could be putting electricity back into the grid to supply industry, and we could most likely be producing our own hydrogen at home for our automobiles. Our savings could be spent growing our economy.... End of oil problem.

This will never happen because oil is not our problem... The people we have given power to will keep their power at all costs. The two parties yell and scream at each other at times, but there is no way the Dems or Reps will allow anyone else but them in charge... and "We the "People" will continue to put them back into power... in the false belief that "they" will save us from "those bad guys". IMHO

Posted at August 18, 2007 11:31 AM in response to Wolfowitz: Je Ne Regrette Rien

"better than if it had come to office dedicated to repealing the Emancipation Proclamation"

I'm sorry, but I believe that. as long as the slavery is outside our boundaries, it is still okay.

Remember that little embassy we are building in Iraq?
It'll be a $600 billion example that slavery is alive and well... and excused... as long as it done by a contractor instead of an official of the government...

Posted at August 2, 2007 8:50 AM in response to Pat Tillman, Soldier, and an Administration That Laughs Off His Death

Could someone please tell me why President Bush didn't just disband all his cabinets, send the folks home, and save the taxpayers some money? He apparently has never felt a real need for them... or their expertise.

He must really believe the passage that all of man's beliefs are but nonsence...

Posted at June 21, 2007 3:33 PM in response to TPMtv Transcript: Thursday, June 21, 2007