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After all....

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:29:20 GMT

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By: Major League Infidel
The media had a field day with Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. However, they missed the boat and the pictures below tell a much deeper story of abuse by our troops in Iraq.

Armed American troops force Iraqis to seesaw until they talk

Iraqi child bites soldier in self defense after obvious torture

Unfortunately, there’s nothing funny about this one.

There have been other depresions.....

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:28:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: other than the '30's....

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Panic of 1837 · History

The Panic of 1837 was a panic in the United States built on a speculative fever. The bubble burst on May 10, 1837 in New York City, when every bank stopped payment in specie (gold and silver coinage). The Panic was followed by a five-year depression, with the failure of banks and record high unemployment levels.

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1 Causes
2 Effects and aftermath
3 Narrative history
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links

Miserable???? They got your number....

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:05:29 GMT

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Misery index (economics)

The misery index is an economic indicator, created by economist Arthur Okun, and found by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate. It is assumed that both a higher rate of unemployment and a worsening of inflation both create economic and social costs for a country.^[1] It is often incorrectly attributed to Chicago economist Robert Barro in the 1970s, due to the Barro Misery Index that additionally includes GDP and the bank rate.^[2]

During the Presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic candidate, Jimmy Carter, made frequent references to the Misery Index, which by the summer of 1976 was at 13.57%. Carter stated that no man responsible for giving a country a misery index that high, had a right to even ask to be President. Carter won the 1976 election. However, by 1980, when President Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the Misery Index had reached an all-time high of 21.98%. Carter lost the election to Reagan.

This sucks....

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:27:27 GMT

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Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out "Crowd Control"

Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time.

George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in the "War on Terror," the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield.

"If the President directed the First Brigade to arrest Congress, what could stop him?"

"Nothing. Their only recourse is to cut off funding. The Congress would be at the mercy of military leaders to go to them and ask them not to obey illegal orders."

SO, Obama hangs out w/ terrorists.....

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:53:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ......while Pailn is married to one. More neo-con jobs!

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Sarah Palin and ‘first dudes’ political alliance with a terrorist who was murdered in 1993 during “a plastic explosives sale gone bad.”

“The fires of **** are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government… And I won’t be buried under their damn flag,” - Joe Vogler in 1991, Founder of the Alaska Independence Party.

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

Her husband, Todd, was a member the Alaskan Independence Party working for Alaska to secede from the United States. The director of Division of Elections in Alaska reported that Todd Palin registered in October 1995 to the Alaska Independence Party, a radical group that advocates for Alaskan secession from the United States, and remained a member until 2002, when he registered as undeclared while his wife ran for office.

Sarah congratulates the secession party only 6 months ago on their political gains.

May be tounge in cheek but.........

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:38:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: .........I see the same thing for real....

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WHY IS McCAIN RUINING THIS LADY’S LIFE? “As a cheap political stunt, McCain dragged this nice lady he doesn’t even know into his doomed campaign, and already the TV commentators and op-ed writers are calling her a dimwit, an amateur, a hapless tool. McCain is such a cruel creep that he’s making Sarah Palin debate Joe Biden.” [Political Machine]

What is it that has to be so secret....

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:24:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ....Oil? Power? Money? Madness!

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Bush quietly seeks to make war powers permanent, by declaring indefinite state of war

As the nation focuses on Sen. John McCain's choice of running mate, President Bush has quietly moved to expand the reach of presidential power by ensuring that America remains in a state of permanent war.

Buried in a recent proposal by the Administration is a sentence that has received scant attention -- and was buried itself in the very newspaper that exposed it Saturday. It is an affirmation that the United States remains at war with al Qaeda, the Taliban and "associated organizations. "

War powers" have also given President Bush cover to hold Americans without habeas corpus -- detainment without explanation or charge

"Some Republicans have already embraced the idea

'Since 9/11,' Mr. Smith said, 'we have been at war with an unconventional enemy whose primary goal is to kill innocent Americans.'"

Ramdom OR systemic it's still a crime....

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:24:48 GMT

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Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes

By Bruce Schneier | Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, has finally admitted that a ten-year-old error has caused votes to be dropped.

Ohio is trying to sue:

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is seeking to recover millions of dollars her state spent on the touch-screen machines and is urging the state legislature to require optical scanners statewide instead.In a lawsuit, Brunner charged on Aug. 6 that touch-screen machines made by the former Diebold Election Systems and bought by 11 Ohio counties “produce computer stoppages” or delays and are vulnerable to “hacking, tampering and other attacks.” In all, 44 Ohio counties spent $83 million in 2006 on Diebold’s touch screens.

if this error is random or systematic. If it’s random — a small percentage of all votes are

dropped — then it is highly unlikely that this affected the outcome

If it’s systematic —

then it is much more problematic.

Good sense read....

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:19:50 GMT

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POLITICS DRIVEN BY FICTION: MADE FOR TV

By Sam Smith | The confluence of Barack Obama’s stadium acceptance extravaganza and John McCain’s pick for vice president offers superfluous but final proof that Americans have been consigned to spend their lives as part of a crowd scene in an HBO special. Both Obama and Palin have come out of nowhere, rising to preeminence not on the basis of achievements, politics or service but by having all the qualities an ad executive looks for when trying to market a new product. What the Mad Men of the 1960s sought in cigarettes and cars, their 21st century equivalents now apply to candidates.

A heartbeat away........

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:59:43 GMT

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John McCain is Older Than Alaska

23 years older.

The Senator from Arizona is 23 years older than America's 49th state.

OMG!!!!!

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:58:16 GMT

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Theocratic Sect Prays for Real Armageddon

Members of Joel's Army are fighting to bring about the millennial reign of Christ.

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Todd Bentley has a long night ahead of him, resurrecting the dead, healing the blind, and exploding cancerous tumors. Since April 3, the 32-year-old, heavily tattooed, body-pierced, shaved-head Canadian preacher has been leading a continuous "supernatural healing revival" in central Florida. To contain the 10,000-plus crowds flocking from around the globe, Bentley has rented baseball stadiums, arenas and airport hangars at a cost of up to $15,000 a day. Many in attendance are church pastors themselves who believe Bentley to be a prophet and don't bat an eye when he tells them he's seen King David and spoken with the Apostle Paul in heaven. "He was looking very Jewish," Bentley notes.

Slick choice. I smell Rove....

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:55:48 GMT

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Drew Westen, a clinical, personality and political psychologist who teaches at Emory University, explains this phenomenon in his recent book, The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation. "(T)he vision of mind that has captured the imagination of philosophers, cognitive scientists, economists, and political scientists since the eighteenth century -- a dispassionate mind that makes decisions by weighing the evidence and reasoning to the most valid conclusions -- bears no relation to how the mind and brain actually work," Westen writes. "When campaign strategists start from this vision of mind, their candidates typically lose."

An Ex-Beauty Queen for VP: Political Risk or Political Genius?

A MAJOR flip-flop.....

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:07:12 GMT

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What John McCain Should Know

John McCain should know. More than any other candidate for president, John McCain should know that peace talks can be stronger and smarter than bombs, that withdrawing American soldiers can be the best way to achieve stability, and that the best way to protect American troops is to bring them home from the war zone.

John McCain should know, because he has lived this experience. After being held for nearly six years and tortured in a North Vietnamese prison, Lt. Cmdr. John McCain was freed—not by a daring commando raid on an enemy compound but by a negotiated settlement arrived at in peace talks in Paris. President Richard Nixon agreed to remove U.S. troops from Vietnam within 60 days, and the North Vietnamese government agreed to release American POWs like McCain as those troops were withdrawn.

LOL people!!!!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:30:06 GMT

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Urban Legends

Browse Topic

A little Bush?????? Yes.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:27:55 GMT

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Top 10 Dumbest John McCain Quotes

8. "I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don't expect to be a great communicator, I don't expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need." --New York Times interview, July 13, 2008

7. "I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks." --speaking at the National Small Business Summit, Washington, D.C., June 10, 2008 (Watch video clip)

5. "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book." --as quoted in the Boston Globe, Dec. 17, 2007

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After all....

There have been other depresions.....

Panic of 1837 · History

Contents

Miserable???? They got your number....

This sucks....

SO, Obama hangs out w/ terrorists.....

May be tounge in cheek but.........

What is it that has to be so secret....

Ramdom OR systemic it's still a crime....

Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes

Good sense read....

POLITICS DRIVEN BY FICTION: MADE FOR TV

A heartbeat away........

OMG!!!!!

Slick choice. I smell Rove....

A MAJOR flip-flop.....

What John McCain Should Know

LOL people!!!!

Urban Legends

Browse Topic

A little Bush?????? Yes.

Top 10 Dumbest John McCain Quotes