Clipmarks | merrie's 'mccain' clips

Protesting Clippers could face Prison or Fines.

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:19:15 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Well it's too late for me I reckon, so I might as well just keep on keepin' on peacefully protesting. Now more than ever, it seems so necessary. This is another "I dare you" clip. Are they trying to scare, intimidate or threaten people to the point, that they just don't dare comment or clip or pop or blog or speak out anymore? Should I just cave in and "turn myself in" quarterly and bow down to oppression? I think not. I will not be silenced. If I ever stop clipping about all this, you'll know why. See ya in Guantanamo!

- The White House's own recently de-classified strategy for "winning the war on terror" targets Internet conspiracy theories as a recruiting ground for terrorists and threatens to "diminish" their influence.

- Chertoff pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool.

Clip Source: infowars.net

Bloggers Who Criticize Government May Face Prison

Bill would allow rounding up and imprisoning of non-registered political writers

You'd be forgiven for thinking that it was some new restriction on free speech in Communist China. But it isn't. The U.S. Government wants to force bloggers and online grassroots activists to register and regularly report their activities to Congress in the latest astounding attack on the internet and the First Amendment.

Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of GrassrootsFreedom.com, a website dedicated to fighting efforts to silence grassroots movements, states:

"Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill currently before the Senate, would require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who communicate to 500 or more members of the public on policy matters, to register and report quarterly to Congress the same as the big K Street lobbyists. Section 220 would amend existing lobbying reporting law by creating the most expansive intrusion on First Amendment rights ever. For the first time in history, critics of Congress will need to register and report with Congress itself."

In other words Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats may redefine the meaning of lobbying in order that political communications to and even between citizens falls under the same legislation.

Under current law any 'lobbyist" who 'knowingly and willingly fails to file or report." quarterly to the government faces criminal charges including a possible jail term of up to one year.

The amendment is currently on hold.

This latest attack on bloggers comes hot on the heels of Republican Senator John McCain's proposal to introduce legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards.

Tags: free speech, civil rights, fascism, clipmarks, bloggers, oppression

Religious Cartoons. Not a bit funny. Ok?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:11:38 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: A god send. Well someone spoke in my ear.

Church and state cartoons.

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist."
-- Archbishop Helder Camara

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

-- Carl Sagan

To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.
-- Julian Ruck

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

"Just before us is a nuclear countdown with Iran, followed by the final battle: the battle of Armageddon . . . . The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad. The best is yet to be."
-- Televangelist and McCain endorser John Hagee

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we’re going?
-- Anonymous

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages—as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already.
-- Edward Abbey

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal

Tags: religion, humour, comic

War on Blogs?

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:44:43 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Hmm. . . could this have something to do with the user comments on the ill-fated Tom DeLay Blog?

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

John McCain’s War On Blogs

John McCain has made clear that he doesn’t like the blogosphere.

Now he has introduced legislation that would treat blogs like Internet service providers and hold them responsible for all activity in the comments sections and user profiles. Some highlights of the legislation:

– Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000.”

– Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers with comment sections may face “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs.

— Social networking sites will be forced to take “effective measures” — such as deleting user profiles — to remove any website that is “associated” with a sex offender. Sites may include not only Facebook and MySpace, but also Amazon.com, which permits author profiles and personal lists, and blogs like DailyKos, which allows users to sign up for personal diaries.

Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes that this proposal may be based more “on fear or political considerations rather than on the facts.” When he introduced his legislation to the Senate, McCain offered no evidence that children are being victimized by people who post comments on blogs.

McCain’s legislation could deal a serious blow to the blogosphere. Lacking resources to police their sites, many individual blogs may have to shut down open discussion.

(HT:The Liberty Papers)

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Tags: politics, blogs, idiot, idea

An 82-year-old's perspective on the debates

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:43:11 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: She says: "It’s OK. We’ve been part of the greatest generation. We had our turn. Now we get to sit back and enjoy our pie while someone else worries about the calories. The new guy has the energy and the new ideas. Senator Obama, I hope you’re up for the challenge."

Clip Source: margaretandhelen.wordpress.com

here is what my heart is telling me. I am 82 years old (83 in December). It’s time to hand the reigns over to the next generation and hope that we did a good job raising them. To Senator McCain I say, with love in my heart, sit down and shut up. You’re beginning to look like

a cross between Barnie Fife and Floyd the Barber

There is too much at stake. You can’t agree with George Bush all of the time and then say you are about change. You can’t say the economy is strong in the morning and then say it’s a crisis that afternoon. You can’t be about deregulation for 25 years and then suddenly be against it. And for God’s sakes war can’t be the answer to everything

It’s OK. We’ve been part of the greatest generation. We had our turn. Now we get to sit back and enjoy our pie while someone else worries about the calories. The new guy has the energy and the new ideas. Senator Obama, I hope you’re up for the challenge.

One more thing

before this old bird goes to bed. Ronald Reagan is dead. Let it go

Tags: obama, mccain, election

McCain baffled by condom question

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:40:00 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: "You've stumped me" on whether condoms help stop HIV. "I have to find out what my position was."

Clip Source: www.dailykos.com

Mr. McCain: "I haven’t thought about it.

should it be Bush’s policy, which is just abstinence?"

Mr. McCain: (Long pause) "Ahhh. I think I support the president’s policy."

Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?

Mr. McCain: (Long pause) "You’ve stumped me."

Q: "I mean, I think you’d probably agree it probably does help stop it?"

Mr. McCain: (Laughs) "Are we on the Straight Talk express?

I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was. Brian, would you find out what my position is on contraception – I’m sure I’m opposed to government spending on it, I’m sure I support the president’s policies on it."

Q: "But you would agree that condoms do stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

Mr. McCain: (Twelve-second pause) "Get me Coburn’s thing, ask Weaver to get me Coburn’s paper that he just gave me in the last couple of days. I’ve never gotten into these issues before."

Tags: politics

Campaign Clicks

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:19:58 GMT

clipped by: chithon
clipper's remarks: Great Site! Pick your favorite person running for President and click ads to fund their campaign!

Clip Source: politics.charityads.org

Support your favorite candidate by viewing ads and supporting the advertisers.
Every Click Counts! So come back everyday!

Tags: politics, election 08, clinton, obama, mccain, huckabee

Wrong Woman; Wrong Message

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:46:12 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does. I get no pleasure from imagining her in the spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which she has zero background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen. Joe Biden's 37 years' experience. When asked last month about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every day?" When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq."

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote.

But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs."

Where government and God and oil pipelines collide

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:13:57 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I wonder if she thinks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed because the people's hearts weren't with God. I suppose that if we prayed more for our mortgage rates to go down we wouldn't be in this mess.

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

"I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas pipeline built. So pray for that ... I can do my job there in developing my natural resources. But all of that doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's heart is not good with God."

Tags: palin, alaska, oil pipeline, politics, mccain

Bwaaaaaahaaaahaaahaaaaa...!

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:23:04 GMT

clipped by: dulios
clipper's remarks: Speak it, brother!

Clip Source: voices.washingtonpost.com

Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain's presidential bid,

"This election is not about issues," said Davis.

Tags: the republican party is officially bankrupt

Yep again!

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:45:06 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: So true...so very damn true!

You wonder why our military is stretched too thin...why we need Asia and the Middle East to bail out our banks...why we haven't embraced alternatives to oil like Asia and Europe have...why we haven't caught Bin Laden...

Maybe it's because we keep electing people that seem cool to hang out with but aren't capable of leading the world's most powerful nation.

How about George Bush and Sarah Palin start a tv show called "politicians that seem fun to hang out with" and we start electing more boring but gifted people as President.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

For America to make a decision as grave as this one - while the planet boils and with the US fighting two wars - on the trivial basis that a hockey mom is likable and seems down to earth, would be to convey a lack of seriousness, a fleeing from reality, that does indeed suggest a nation in, to quote Weisberg, "historical decline". Let's not forget, McCain's campaign manager boasts that this election is "not about the issues."

Tags: politics, election, obama, mccain, palin

"A dishonorable lust for office"

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:03:07 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: The choice of Palin reveals a dishonourable lust for office, a disrespect for women generally and a dishonourable indifference to the future of his country.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

McCain doesn’t know Palin at all, nor it seems did his vetting people; revelations keep emerging about her all the time. But he showed himself willing to hand the free world over to a stranger because his people think she is a psephological paragon.

I had thought that McCain was, for a politician, an honourable man.

But who can think so now? In choosing a woman he doesn’t know or understand, purely for electoral advantage, he reveals a dishonourable lust for office, a disrespect for women generally and a dishonourable indifference to the future of his country.

Palin is an ill-educated, inexperienced hypocrite. The Republicans are trying to sell her to the voters as something she isn’t, and McCain hardly cares what she is. It’s a bad day for my native land.

John McCain’s choice of Governor Sarah Palin was the last straw.

Tags: palin, mccain

A Conservative For Obama

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:34:56 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern
clipper's remarks: I saw this clipped earlier, but I didn't realize the gravity of the endorsement. Wow, a publisher of the National Review saying, "But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. "

Clip Source: www.dmagazine.com

A Conservative for Obama

My senior thesis at the University of Texas was on the conservative intellectual revival in America. Twenty years later, I was invited by William F. Buckley Jr. to join the board of National Review. I later became its publisher.

But today it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political programs when they clearly don’t work. The Bush tax cuts—a solution for which there was no real problem and which he refused to end even when the nation went to war—led to huge deficit spending and a $3 trillion growth in the federal debt. Facing this, John McCain pumps his “conservative” credentials by proposing even bigger tax cuts. Meanwhile, a movement that once fought for limited government has presided over the greatest growth of government in our history. That is not conservatism; it is profligacy using conservatism as a mask.

As a cause, conservatism may be dead.

I believe it is very much alive in the instincts and predispositions of a liberal named Barack Obama.

Tags: obama, mccain, conservative, liberal

One thing everyone must know about Palin

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:42:59 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: As a father of two girls I plan on doing my absolute best to make sure that everyone knows this fact before they decide who to vote for.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

In November 2006, then gubernatorial candidate Sarah Palin declared that she would not support an abortion for her own daughter even if she had been raped.

Tags: palin, abortion, rape, politics, mccain

World wants Obama as president: poll

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:43:07 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: Will Americans choose to lead the world, or will they once again squander the goodwill that the world would love to heap on the USA.

What will they do?

The countries most optimistic that an Obama presidency would improve relations were America's NATO allies, including Australia (62 per cent).

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain.

In 17 of the 22 nations, people expect relations between the US and the rest of the world to improve if Senator Obama wins.

More than 22,000 people were questioned by pollster GlobeScan in countries ranging from Australia to India and across Africa, Europe and South America.

The margin in favour of Senator Obama ranged from 9 per cent in India to 82 per cent in Kenya, while an average of 49 per cent across the 22 countries preferred Senator Obama compared with 12 per cent preferring Senator McCain. Some four in 10 did not take a view.

Large numbers of people around the world clearly like what Barack Obama represents," GlobeScan chairman Doug Miller said.

"Given how negative America's international image is at present, it is quite striking that only one in five think a McCain presidency would improve on the Bush administration's relations with the world."

Clip Source: shotpolitics.com

Tags: mccain equals bush in the eyes of the world

The Psychology Behind the Worst Possible President

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:39:27 GMT

clipped by: Dazey
clipper's remarks: This was longer than 2000 char, so .. at the end is a link to "print this article". Click that, it'll take you straight on to the article without loading graphics.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

The Psychology Behind the Worst Possible President

By Jane Smiley, HuffingtonPost.com. Posted January 17, 2007.

The longer Bush is in office, the more his psychology becomes clear. He's not a well-meaning doofus; he's a madman.

Back in the year 2000, when George W. Bush lost the popular vote and was shoe-horned into office by the Supreme Court in spite of clear conflicts of interest on the part of Scalia and Thomas, the psychology of Little George was known to only a few.

To most of us he seemed like a doofus -- a more or less well-meaning guy who enjoyed running things like baseball teams and the State of Texas if not too much work was involved. Had been an alcoholic and a drug user, but had apparently come clean in some hazy, quasi-religious way -- that was his personal history to many Americans (if not to all those who met with Karl Rove behind closed doors and heard the truth).

At any rate, I remember thinking that Bill Clinton had done such a good job over the years getting the budget into a surplus and winning good feelings around the world that it really didn't matter who of the four who were running (Gore, Bradley, McCain, Bush) might win. They all seemed about the same in lots of ways.

What we really needed was some respite from Clinton's own penchant for mischief. I liked Clinton. I remember that The New Yorker magazine asked me for my take on the Lewinsky scandal, and I said that on balance, in spite of the brouhaha, I still preferred a president who would make love, not war. Clinton was a flawed human being, that was evident, but he knew it. He never didn't know it. And he was always trying to make amends.

Little did we know, of course, that the neocons thought we were due for a war. Thinktank gun-jockeys looking for a fight. Do they personally have some human qualities? Who cares. May they rot.

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Tags: bush, moron, politics