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Big Brother Bush is a Pervert! Violating the Constitution one Phone Call at a Time

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:51:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Read the article. The level of B.S. from the Administration is intolerable!

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence analysts eavesdropped on personal calls between Americans overseas and their families back home and monitored the communications of workers with the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations, according to two military linguists involved in U.S. surveillance programs.

The accounts are the most detailed to date to challenge the assertions of President Bush, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden and other administration officials that the government's controversial overseas wiretapping activities have been carefully monitored to prevent abuse and invasion of U.S. citizens' privacy.

The linguists said that recordings of intimate conversations between citizens and their loved ones were sometimes passed around, out of prurient interest, among analysts at an electronic surveillance facility at Ft. Gordon, Ga.

Their claims were reported Thursday by ABC News.

Tags: spying, phone, communication, terror, big brother, bush, constitution, civil rights

I bet President Bush doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is either

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:08:16 GMT

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Clip Source: patriotboy.blogspot.com

So Sarah Palin doesn't know what the "Bush Doctrine" is. You don't really have to understand the central doctrine driving our current foreign policy to be qualified to be vice president; you just have to be willing to kick some ass. Sure the Bush Doctrine, which says that pre-emptive war is justified in some cases, was our excuse for invading Iraq and our justification for a potential attack on Iran, but Gov. Palin doesn't need an excuse. She needs an apocalypse to usher in Our Lord Jesus' second coming.

So forget about "Bush Doctrine" segment of her interview with Charlie Gibson. The important part is where she talks about going to war with Russia. That’s our apocalypse. It’s a shame she wasn’t president a month ago, because we’d be ass deep in apocalypse right now, with a possibility of having Christ stop by for Christmas.

Clip Source: patriotboy.blogspot.com

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Tags: palin, bush, docrine, rapture, war, apocalypse, good, show

Bush listens to the Generals...Yeah Right!

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:03:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And in other fairy tales, Red Riding Hood wonders if Grandma should go to the orthodontist.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

During a JCS meeting with the colonels Nov. 20, Chairman Pace dropped a bomb: The White House was considering a "surge" of additional troops to quell the violence in Iraq. "Would it be a good idea?" Pace asked the group. "If so, what would you do with five more brigades?" That amounted to 20,000 to 30,000 more troops, depending on the number of support personnel.

Pace's question caught the chiefs and colonels off guard. The JCS hadn't recommended a surge, and Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Iraq commander, was opposed to one of that magnitude. Where had this come from? Was it a serious option? Was it already a done deal?

"I can only get part of it before him," Pace said, "and I'm not getting any feedback."

"When does AEI start trumping the Joint Chiefs of Staff on this stuff?" Schoomaker asked at the next chiefs' meeting.

Schoomaker was dismayed. Suppose the surge didn't work? "What is our fallback plan?" he asked.

There was no fallback, Pace replied.

Tags: bush, war, surge, lies, military, aei, neocons, leadership, wtf

Bush Defeated The Tree - Lewis Black

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:22:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What a warrior!

NOT!

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: bush, tree, defeat, idiot, moron, wtf

Daily Show: 2008 McCain = 2000 Bush: A case of amnesia.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:30:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: McSame, word for word.

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Jon finds some eerie similarities between John McCain’s convention speech and the one given by George W. Bush eight years ago.

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John Amato: McCain wants us to forget that if he wins the election—America will be controlled by the Republicans for four more years that have produced such disastrous results. And the media will only help make this election about personalities instead of issues and then use Palin to distract us from those issues.

Given that 82 percent of voters believe we are heading in the wrong direction, it’s a logical position to take. But for the American people to buy into the notion that McCain, who has raced to Bush’s side on tax cuts, on offshore drilling — even on torture — is this campaign’s agent of change, it’s going to require an incredible suspension of disbelief. Or a serious case of amnesia.

Tags: bush, mccain, here, we, go, again

Rise of the Empire

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:47:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Looks familiar, don't it?

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: video, empire, youtube, war, iraq, bush, gop, cops

GOP-ers weigh in on Bush's eight years

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:14:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: That may be but the bubble of self-inflicted delusion is alive and well:

"I regard Bush 43 as one of the greatest presidents of the last century, right up there with [Ronald] Reagan, and I have tremendous respect and admiration for what he's done," said Clint Moore, a Texas delegate.

In what parallel universe?

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The looming threat of Hurricane Gustav forced President Bush to cancel his planned valedictory address before the GOP national convention Monday night.

For many delegates gathering here, that's not a bad thing.

Everyone assembled in St. Paul hates the circumstances that forced Bush's absence; concern about Gustav dominated every conversation. But given the deeply conflicted emotions that swirl around the president from within his party, Bush's decision to forgo the occasion saves Republicans an awkward moment.

The view toward Bush from this convention is complex. Some delegates praise him for a job well done. Others nurse resentments over a host of Bush actions — the government's botched and insensitive response to Hurricane Katrina, ironically, is at the top of that list.

But most feel a sense of disappointment for what might have been.

Tags: gop, convention, war, empire, conquest, blood, iraq, idiots

Georgia is the graveyard of America's unipolar world

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:57:19 GMT

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There has been much talk among western politicians in recent days about Russia isolating itself from the international community. But unless that simply means North America and Europe, nothing could be further from the truth. While the US and British media have swung into full cold-war mode over the Georgia crisis, the rest of the world has seen it in a very different light. As Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore's former UN ambassador, observed in the Financial Times a few days ago, "most of the world is bemused by western moralising on Georgia". While the western view is that the world "should support the underdog, Georgia, against Russia ... most support Russia against the bullying west. The gap between the western narrative and the rest of the world could not be clearer."

And that has the neocons scare witless!

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Russia's defiance in the Caucasus has brought down the curtain on Bush senior's new world order - not before time

If there were any doubt that the rules of the international game have changed for good, the events of the past few days should have dispelled it. On Monday, President Bush demanded that Russia's leaders reject their parliament's appeal to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Within 24 hours, Bush had his response: President Medvedev announced Russia's recognition of the two contested Georgian enclaves.

The Russian message was unmistakable: the outcome of the war triggered by Georgia's attack on South Ossetia on August 7 is non-negotiable - and nothing the titans of the US empire do or say is going to reverse it. After that, the British foreign secretary David Miliband's posturing yesterday in Kiev about building a "coalition against Russian aggression" merely looked foolish.

Tags: russia, us, empire, georgia, history, hegemony

Bush To Russia: Stop The "Bullying And Intimidation"

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:42:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Another from the Dept. of you can't make this $&#! up! Mr. President, only kids believe in opposite day.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

WASHINGTON — President Bush on Friday accused Russia of "bullying and intimidation" in its harsh military treatment of Georgia, saying the people in the former Soviet republic have chosen freedom and "we will not cast them aside."

Bush ratcheted up his rhetoric against Moscow as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pursued a diplomatic solution to the week-old crisis. Rice was in Tblisi for talks with pro-Western Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili about details of the cease-fire, which would require Russia to withdraw its combat forces from Georgia but allow Russian peacekeepers to remain in South Ossetia and conduct limited patrols outside the region.

Bush said that Russia, with its air, sea and land attacks in Georgia, had damaged its relations with the United States and other Western powers.

Still, Bush said, "The Cold War is over. The days of satellite states and spheres of influence are behind us."

Tags: bush, putin, u.s., russia, georgia, empire

Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:39:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Troops giving money to the McCain campaign would be akin to the turkey voting FOR Thangskiving.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

"Why do the troops hate the troops?"

Honestly, after years of hearing that if you don't support the Bush military policy, you don't support the troops, you have to wonder what the neo-cons will do now. Today, a study by the Center for Responsive Politics reported that members of the military are giving more donations to Senator Obama than Senator McCain, and when you just examine those troops who are deployed, Obama attracts more donations by a 6 to 1 factor.

Troops, of course, aren't much different than most Americans, who overwhelmingly oppose the Bush military policy that John McCain would continue (the latest AP-Ipsos poll had 62 percent disapproving of the Bush policy). It's just that troops have a lot more personal experience on this particular issue. We know that those who served believe Iraq has overstreched the military, and for years that those who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are solidly against the current policy.

Tags: war, iraq, afghanistan, support, troops, policies, politics, obama, mccain

Putin's war enablers: Bush and Cheney

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:53:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And BTW, this is not "Blame America First" (which would mean Bush/Cheney are America? Yikes!) but putting the blame where it belongs. Exceeding his political priorities and invading a weaker neighbor, Putin. Enabling him, Bush/Cheney.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Aug. 14, 2008 | The run-up to the current chaos in the Caucasus should look quite familiar: Russia acted unilaterally rather than going through the U.N. Security Council. It used massive force against a small, weak adversary. It called for regime change in a country that had defied Moscow. It championed a separatist movement as a way of asserting dominance in a region it coveted.

Indeed, despite George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's howls of outrage at Russian aggression in Georgia and the disputed province of South Ossetia, the Bush administration set a deep precedent for Moscow's actions -- with its own systematic assault on international law over the past seven years. Now, the administration's condemnations of Russia ring hollow.

Tags: russia, putin, us, bush, international, law, chaos, crimes, invasion, war

Crotchety Kristol mad at Bush: Complains about “propaganda” being used in China

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:53:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There is a saying in Spanish: "Siempre habla el que menos puede."

In other words, filthy hypocrites should keep their mouths shut!

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. On FNS, Bill Kristol was furious that President Bush went to the Beijing Olympics instead of watching it on TV because of the propaganda value that Bush gave to China against the pro-democracy agenda.

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Kristol: You can talk to human rights and pro democracy activists both in exile and over here and those over there. They did not want him to go and to legitimize what is a giant propaganda festival for Beijing.My wife told me I shouldn’t say that I disapprove of Bush going, I disapprove of the dictatorship in Beijing. I disapprove of the totalitarian propaganda spectacle on Friday night. She said this would make me look “crotchety” …

Kristol is the Minister of Propaganda at FOX so for him to complain about it really is high comedy. And I’ll throw in the fact that his wife called him—errrr–crotchety. Yea, that too…

Tags: faux news

Longtime Republican voters are airing new views

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:08:47 GMT

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Clip Source: www.latimes.com

-- Cheap mortgages and cheap gas built this sprawling landscape of tan and gray stucco homes, iron gates and golf course communities. And the people who flocked here over the last decade -- upwardly mobile young families in pursuit of lower taxes and wholesome neighborhoods -- emerged as a Republican voting bloc crucial to President Bush's 2004 reelection.

But listen to Anna Rodriguez and her neighbors who gather nightly on lawn chairs to unwind, and a change comes into focus that could shift the national political landscape in 2008 and beyond.

"This is the first election I ever actually looked at someone else other than the Republican candidate," said Rodriguez, 33, who is studying to be a teacher and is a fixture at the lawn chair hobnob here on Greely Court, a quiet cul-de-sac in a Pasco County subdivision called Wrencrest.

"I've had enough with the Republican economics,"

"No more Bush."

Tags: politics, partues, economy, suburbs

Plucky little Georgia? No, the cold war reading won't wash

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:37:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: All is not what is what it looks like....

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Devoted to achieving Nato entry for Georgia, Saakashvili has sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan - and so clearly felt he had American backing. The streets of the Georgian capital are plastered with posters of George W Bush alongside his Georgian protege. George W Bush avenue leads to Tbilisi airport. But he has ignored Kissinger's dictum: "Great powers don't commit suicide for their allies." Perhaps his neoconservative allies in Washington have forgotten it, too. Let's hope not.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

For many people the sight of Russian tanks streaming across a border in August has uncanny echoes of Prague 1968. That cold war reflex is natural enough, but after two decades of Russian retreat from those bastions it is misleading. Not every development in the former Soviet Union is a replay of Soviet history.

The clash between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia, which escalated dramatically yesterday, in truth has more in common with the Falklands war of 1982 than it does with a cold war crisis. When the Argentine junta was basking in public approval for its bloodless recovery of Las Malvinas, Henry Kissinger anticipated Britain's widely unexpected military response with the comment: "No great power retreats for ever." Maybe today Russia has stopped the long retreat to Moscow which started under Gorbachev.

The more Russia drew in its horns, the more Washington and its allies denounced the Kremlin for its imperial ambitions.

Tags: georgia, russia, war, empire, nato, u.s.

China on Bush: Don't interfere in our affairs

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:22:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

BEIJING - China rejected President Bush's criticism Thursday of its human rights record and restrictions on religion, diplomatically telling him to stay out of its affairs only hours before he arrived in Beijing to attend the Olympics.

In a speech in Bangkok outlining America's achievements and challenges in Asia, Bush pushed for a free press, free assembly and labor rights in China, and against its detentions of political dissidents, human rights advocates and religious activists. He said he wasn't trying to antagonize China, but called such reform the only path the potent U.S. rival can take to reach its full potential.

He antagonized the Chinese anyway, setting the stage for an interesting reception when he attends the opening ceremonies Friday evening, takes in some events — including the U.S.-China men's basketball game — and meets with President Hu Jintao on Sunday after attending church.

Tags: bush, u.s., china, human rights, olympics

Clipmarks | ratilfar's 'bush' clips

Big Brother Bush is a Pervert! Violating the Constitution one Phone Call at a Time

I bet President Bush doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is either

Bush listens to the Generals...Yeah Right!

Bush Defeated The Tree - Lewis Black

Daily Show: 2008 McCain = 2000 Bush: A case of amnesia.

Rise of the Empire

GOP-ers weigh in on Bush's eight years

Georgia is the graveyard of America's unipolar world

Russia's defiance in the Caucasus has brought down the curtain on Bush senior's new world order - not before time

Bush To Russia: Stop The "Bullying And Intimidation"

Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain

Putin's war enablers: Bush and Cheney

Crotchety Kristol mad at Bush: Complains about “propaganda” being used in China

Longtime Republican voters are airing new views

exurbs

Feeling the pinch

Plucky little Georgia? No, the cold war reading won't wash

China on Bush: Don't interfere in our affairs