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Like I said, we won't need SCOTUS no mo'!

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:26:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If one more "R" gets on SCOTUS we can all say TOOTLES to civil liberties & HELLO to Fascism. A statement from an everyday Alarmist? No its serious! The court now in lockstep with the "R" ideology which protects the wealthy and gives a nose-thumb at those who need help. The kind of social order they wish to spread across our land, is not democracy. Not with, cruel punishment for those who can't pay their way out of a guilt accusation. Not with, melt down of habeas corpus. Not with, stripping a woman of her right to choose what's best for her body & circumstances. Not with, laws, claiming Voter Id's before one can vote. Not with, reducing punitive damages to large corp. who will become more reckless not having to face large losses to their beloved capital. Not with, dismantling gun-control laws putting all at risk of being murdered by the disgruntled, the disturbed who should never possess lethal weapons. Remember 1 or 2 more "R" justices and you can kiss your, you-know-what bye-bye

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Editorial

A Supreme Court on the Brink

the Supreme Court term that just ended seems muddled:

disturbing, highly conservative rulings

like voting rights and gun control,

important defenses of basic liberties in other areas, including the rights of detainees

Guantánamo

most important decisions came on 5-to-4 votes

reminder that the court is just one justice away from solidifying a far-right majority

that would do great damage to the Constitution and the rights of ordinary

The Supreme Court abandoned its

role in protecting voting rights

the court struck down parts of the District of Columbia’s gun-control law.

Corporations fared especially well in this term

The court reduced the punitive-damages award against Exxon Mobil

most cold-hearted decision, the court endorsed Kentucky’s use of lethal injection to execute prisoners.

In placing these rulings in the larger context of the court after two appointments by President Bush

Roberts

and

Alito

both

members of the conservative movement

One more

would shift

balance

Tags: scotus, supreme, court, justice

A Video For Progressives - How Obama can win.

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:12:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: View Video Here: http://www.thethinkingblue.com/obamacompromice.html

Eric Alterman argues that Obama is a political realist, a consensus politician who understands that he must compromise in order to be electable.

Transcript Here:
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1768&updaterx=2008-06-30+15:29:39

Clip Source: www.thethinkingblue.com

June 30, 2008

Is Obama a conservative or a progressive realist?

READ TRANSCRIPT HERE

Tags: obama, progressive, election, politics

Fox Noise Is At It Again!!

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:31:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Dear Fox News or rather Noise, Your behavior goes way beyond the pale. In fact your type of excessive fear mongering displays exactly what you try to paint Senator Barack Obama as... foreign, un-American, suspicious, and scary. I realize your viewers are mainly the Limbaugh Ditto Heads but that doesn't excuse your spewing racist and bigoted defamation over our airwaves. You should hang your heads in shame but you have no shame. If you had a human attribute such as guilt you would have stopped long ago to slander anyone who went against your mindset of the rich should get richer and the poor should get lies and distortion. In other words keep the ignorant, ignorant! Your sponsors are as responsible as you, in their disservice to the public and I hope with all that is good they will eventually become losers just like yourselves.

Clip Source: pol.moveon.org

FOX: Stop the smears

cut and paste

Subject: See this? FOX smears Obama

Hi,

FOX's smears against Obama are out of control--have you heard about them? I just signed a petition telling FOX that their use of racism and prejudice is not okay. Would be great if you signed too.

First, a paid FOX commentator accidentally confused "Obama" with "Osama" and then joked on the air about killing Obama. Next, a FOX anchor said a playful fist pound by Barack and Michelle Obama could be a "terrorist fist jab." (Seriously!) And then, FOX called Michelle Obama "Obama's baby mama"--slang used to describe the unmarried mother of a man's child.

Nearly 100,000 folks have signed a petition that will be delivered to FOX. Can you sign too? The more names, the bigger the impact. Here's the link.

http://pol.moveon.org/stopthesmears/?r_by=13007-1240509-eO3mkqx&rc=paste

Thanks!

Tags: fox, news, noise, politics, obama

We Won't Need The Expense Of A Supreme Court

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:42:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If McCain wins in November, we won't need a Supreme Court any longer. When he throws in a few more conservative ideologues to further unbalance this court, we will all know their rulings on EVERYTHING even before they cast their vote. It's almost that way now except for the conservative Kennedy who in his declining years of life has turned into a philosopher, that is a person who seeks truth by thinking! But he is the exception, not the rule. The other justices vote along the lines of WHATEVER THE HELL THEIR KING TELLS THEM TO VOTE. Now is this fair to the people in a democracy... HELL NO! Believe me, not only will progressives suffer many conservatives will suffer too! Left or Right we all feel the pain of injustice!

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Supreme Court, long quiet, ends term with a growl

For most of the term, Supreme Court justices showed remarkable restraint. They displayed broad agreement even in some volatile areas and refrained from angry dissents.

Then they decided the tough cases.

The court, in its three most important cases, declared a constitutional right to have guns at home for self-defense, granted some constitutional protections to foreign prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and outlawed the death penalty for people who rape children.

will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed," Justice Antonin Scalia said

No one threw that line back at Scalia in the guns case.

Stevens, also

said of Scalia's majority opinion on gun rights that "adherence to a policy

wiser than the bold decision it announced today."

Conservative court watchers remain unhappy

Stevens

announced

after 32 years on the court he now believes the death penalty is unconstitutional

justices

four others will be at least 70 when the court reconvenes in October.

Half America would be on Death Row.

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:16:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If it were up to the R party, half of Amer. would be on death row. I exaggerate but you have to ask...what’s wrong with these people? They can't see society for the people. Sick acts do occur that we’d like to cure. But with brains, one size doesn’t fit all. Many take a beating before maturity, so we wind up with depraved sins by sickos. If laws put all sickos to death there would have to be many death rows. Killing doesn’t stop such acts and sets an example that murder is an answer. Life without parole is cost effective. It takes alota $$ before a slaying occurs, life sentences are cheaper. (to those who tout PRISONS COST US TAXPAYERS MUCH MOOLAH, KILL THE BUMS!) Capital punishment is a fact in this brutal society and the judges must decide what it's slated for. It should only be for homicide. If it starts to pertain to other crimes, we slide backwards and kids will hang for stealing apples. Their legs must be weighted cause small bodies are too light to choke a life away.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Unbowed, politicians vow to execute child rapists

Angry politicians vowed to keep writing laws that condemn child rapists to death, despite a Supreme Court decision saying such punishment is unconstitutional.

Anybody in the country who cares about children should be outraged that we have a Supreme Court that would issue a decision like this," said Alabama Attorney General Troy King, a Republican. The justices, he said, are "creating a situation where the country is a less safe place to grow up."

The court's 5-4 decision Wednesday derailed the efforts of nearly a dozen states supporting the right to kill those convicted of raping a child — and said execution was confined to attacks that take a life and to other crimes including treason and espionage.

Kennedy wrote "the death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child," despite the horrendous nature of the crime.

Gov. Bobby Jindal called the ruling "incredibly absurd,"

McMaster said

states

fight

ruling

by waiting for

change

Tags: capital punishment, supreme court, rape

Boston Legal's Depiction of the Supreme Court...

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:59:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Was right on target. When I first saw this clip, I couldn't believe how wonderful it would be if this was not fiction. Well, it seems the Supreme Court may not be as politically polarized as I thought but just one more Republican justice and it will be. When that happens a case like this will only be a fairytale. I can't embed it any longer but you can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqlGoxfAkuU

See John Stewart's hilarious view of Scalia and the Supreme Court. Click Here: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/30/daily-show%20-the-loveable-and-charming-antonin-scalia/

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Supreme Court Fictionalized Dramatization

UPDATE: SUPREME COURT REJECTS THE IDEA OF DEATH FOR RAPE OF A CHILD:
WASHINGTON - Proponents and opponents of imposing the death penalty for rape of a child underwent intense questioning Wednesday from a seemingly divided Supreme Court.

The hour-long argument came in the case of inmate Patrick Kennedy, sentenced to death for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter.

Kennedy's lawyer, Jeffrey L. Fisher, told the court the death penalty for child rape under Louisiana law violates the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
More here: msnbc.msn.com/id/24155465/

This is a short video clip that shows how the Supreme Court has become partisan during the long reign of the Republican Party. If only this depiction could be reality,

But alas, it can never be, as long as we have the Limbaughs, the Coulters and the radical, religious wing of the Republican Party. Too bad, too sad!

Tags: supreme, court, boston, legal, politics, death, penalty

Employee Freedom Of Choice Act (petition)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:51:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Please sign this petition to urge Congress to pass this act. The middle class is going under and we need to restore the freedoms we once had. Thanks, thinkingblue.blogspot.com

Clip Source: www.thethinkingblue.com

This Is Important! Please sign the EMPLOYEE FREEDOM OF CHOICE ACT, PETITION

To: The New President and Congress, The undermining of the middle class which has been going on during the long stranglehold of the Republican, takeover, is finally killing it.

Their mission seems to appear, accomplished but I think they may be scratching their heads and realizing, although, perhaps too late, that this isn't exactly what they intended. If you kill an organism too quickly during torture you didn't do it correctly. The goal is to distress the servitor just enough to show who's boss but hold back a bit as to not finish 'em off.

Well, what was bound to happen ... happened and the middle class is gasping its last breath.

Thank you,
thinkingblue

I urge you to enact the Employee Free Choice Act immediately. This crucial legislation will protect workers’ freedom to choose a union and bargain, without management intimidation.

My bargaining rights are worth working for and voting for!

Tags: freedom, employee, politics, congress

The many faces of John McCain.

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:27:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The closer we get to the presidential election the more John McCain looks and acts like George W. Bush. I don't know what his strategy is all about but do we really want another term of the neocons and Bush? I think not! Perhaps, he is banking on another 9/11 or something to shock Americans into the same fear-hold Karl Rove and the rest of the neocon manipulators had on the people...You know that PNAC group (which has since shut down their site...hmmm I wonder why, does rats overboard mean anything?) But, the PNAC in order to unleash their foreign/military campaigns needed a catalyzing event like "a new Pearl Harbor". (neocon quote) 9/11 rode to their rescue. Now they were able to Pied Piper all the little frightened children into the black hole of hell. But their utopian plan did not work out so well. Maybe they need another Pearl Harbor because it seems the little children have lost some of their fear and may need a booster shot. How much more can we take? Obama or Anyone But McBush!

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Real McCain, Real McSame

[Video]

John McCain is looking more and more like Bush. Do we really want a 3rd term of the Bush Administration. You be the judge.

Tags: mccain, bush, obama, politics, election

Limbaugh tops his own bigotry with this one.

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:15:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's hard to believe what can come out of the mouth (butt) of Rush Limbaugh but his latest tirade is beyond belief, beyond disgusting, beyond loathsome.

Yes it's very hard to believe this mindless little man could stoop so low as to praise the flood victims in Iowa, Illinois who happen to be mostly white and at the same time, condemn the Katrina victims with the same old rhetoric, innuendos and outright bigotry that the KKK type people carry in their bags of hateful garbage.

Those poor hurrican victims, who happen to be mostly of color are responsible in the intolerant brain cells of Rush, for their fate. I know beyond the pale, is too weak a phrase for this criticism from a genuine butt-hole. The only bewilderment I feel of such a creep sputtering into a microphone that goes out over the airwaves is, WHY THE HELL WOULD ANYONE LISTEN TO HIS SHIT AND STILL THINK OF HIM AS A CREDIBLE BEARER OF THE TRUTH? http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com

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Directly From The Butt Of Rush Limbaugh

[Video]

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal areas of the Gulf Coast states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, including the city of New Orleans.

It was among the greatest of natural disasters to ever strike the United States.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so true, but words are important just the same. What is happening in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast region, is beyond pictures and beyond words

The babies, old people, desperate mothers, hungry, thirsty little children and the dead bodies floating in the sludge mixture of the Pontchartrain river and filthy debris left in the storm's wake, played out a nightmare scenario that no movie set could have duplicated with more heart wrenching agony.

Now, Limbaugh, an arrogant ideologue

and hates the black victims of NOLA. He wants you to understand, it was all their fault for not escaping Hurricane Katrina!

They were lazy

people that deserved their fate

Tags: limbaugh, katrina, poverty, iowa, floods, politics, political

I'm Voting Republican!

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:01:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is too good. It says it all about today's Republican Voter, There may have been a time when Republican stood for something positive. But no longer. Watch this whimsical video and REGISTER TO VOTE! click link: http://rockthevote.org/

Here is my response as to why I'm Voting Republican:

I'm voting Republican so I can be sent to the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!! http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com

http://www.imvotingrepublican.com/

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I'm Voting Republican

[Video]

www.ImVotingRepublican.com

I'm Voting Republican is a satirical look at the likely outcome of another four years of Republican government. The not-so-subtle message behind the film is the importance of a united bloc of citizens willing to take the time and effort to vote Democrat in order to improve America's domestic and foreign policy.

Tags: vote, republican, democratic, register, imvotingrepublican.comi

Let's Not Kid Ourselves, It's All About Torture.

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:20:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Democracy Now, had a very informative show on June 13, 2006. They started their segment with Vince Warren on the Supreme Court's ruling of June 12th... That the detainees will have the same rules that America abides by in our Constitution... This ruling has happened 3 times now... The last two times Bush and his Republican Congress had it somewhat annulled. The Judges did not do as they were told so their ruling cannot stand. This is the mindset of Bush and his good little Judges Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Chief Justice Roberts but Justice Kennedy was... "A Bad Boy, A Very Naughty Boy" ... (A Flashback: On what Larry Craig Called Bill Clinton ) Watch the video and stay tuned for (Renowned Attorney Vincent Bugliosi Seeks “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder”) next on Youtube.

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Bush&Co are afraid of Habeas Corpus, because of TORTURE!

Let's not kid ourselves, it's not the fear that the detainees might be released... IT'S THE FACT THAT THE GITMO DETAINEES WERE TORTURED BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THAT THEY WANT CONCEALED.

No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

Supreme Court decision to render unconstitutional the provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that curtailed use of habeas corpus by detainees deemed "enemy combatants" by the Pentagon and held at the Guantanamo U.S. military base in Cuba has unleashed a spurt of vitriol from the right-wing establishment.

[Video]

As can be seen above, the Wall Street Journal has picked up the hysterical standard set forth by right wing ideologue Scalia

and wish to do their best to keep the torture and abuse there as secret

www.pubrecord.org

Tags: supreme, court, ruling, scalia, roberts, gitmo

The Real News - Huffington interview Part One

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:48:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Talking about her book RIGHT IS WRONG... At this link: http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1657

Clip Source: therealnews.com

Huffington breaks down the media

Arianna Huffington on her book Right is Wrong (1 of 3)

MATTHEW PALEVSKY, PRESENTER: I'm sitting with Arianna Huffington, the founder of The Huffington Post and recent author of Right Is Wrong: How the lunatic fringe hijacked America, shredded the Constitution, and made us all less safe (and what you need to know to end the madness.) So one of the things you talk about here is that Right Is Wrong isn't just "right is wrong" as in the neoconservatives are wrong, but also the dichotomy that we always use in the media, this right-left is wrong. You know, it's outdated, and we need a new way of talking about stories.

Tags: real, news network, huffington, interview

Who is the real John McCain?

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:40:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Well, first of all, I was not a supporter in that I was planning to vote for him, but I was an admirer of McCain. I considered him a real leader. So even though I disagreed with him on many issues, I saw in him somebody who genuinely wanted to bring about reform and somebody with a real independence streak. So it was really sad for me to see him be willing to sell his soul to become president of the United States. And the fact that he had told me at a dinner in 2000 in the presence of other people, who have corroborated, it seems, that he did not vote for George Bush, is really a perfect indication of who John McCain was in 2000 and why so many people, including so many in the media, fell in love with him. This was a man who was so independent and so abhorred George Bush, whom he described as dangerous... More Here: http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1658&updaterx=2008-06-12+19%3A58%3A39

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Who is the real John McCain?

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Huffington: In 2000 McCain wouldn't vote for Bush, now he has sacrificed his principles (2 of 3)

Category: News & Politics

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therealnews john mccain arianna huffington candidate election

Tags: mccain, war, huffington, real, news, youtube

The Supreme Court According To Bush.

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:14:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Supreme Court - According to Bush and his merry band of neoconservatives the only function of this Court should be TO DO AS THEY TELL IT TO DO. Well the 4 lackeys' did just that, 2 of which he appointed himself, the others, one his Daddy's choice and the other (he wished he was his daddy) Reagan's. Good ole Reagan appointed Anthony Scalia, (Scalia on capital punishment: "Death is no big deal" {unless of course it's his or his loved ones} - Hypocrisy to the highest degree!) did Bush's bidding just like a good little justice was suppose to do. But the tie breaker was Kennedy (Justice Anthony Kennedy acknowledged the terrorism threat the country faces — the administration's justification for the detentions — but he declared, "THE LAWS AND THE CONSTITUTION ARE DESIGNED TO SURVIVE AND REMAIN IN FORCE, IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES!") Thank all that is good that Reagan slipped up on this nomination, when he nominated a THINKER to the Supreme Court. Will wonders never cease? thinkingblue

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Bush administration disagrees with ruling on detainees

Bush administration disagrees strongly with a Supreme Court decision that gives suspected terrorists the right to go to federal court to seek their release from indefinite detention at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Bush said he might seek a new law to keep the alleged terrorists in a U.S. prison.

Justice Anthony Kennedy acknowledged the terrorism threat the country faces — the administration's justification for the detentions — but he declared, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."

Scalia said the decision "will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."

Human rights groups

Roberts, in his own dissent

Alito and Clarence Thomas also dissented.

specifically struck down a provision of the Military Commissions Act of 2006

denies Guantanamo detainees

right to file petitions

Habeas corpus

centuries-old legal principle

enshrined in the Constitution

Tags: guantanamo, supreme court, bush, detainees

Who is the real Obama?

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:40:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Obama leans to the right on certain issues, like Iran but compared to Neocon McCain he is a Gandhi.
Watch the video at: http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1645

Clip Source: therealnews.com

June 9, 2008

Who is the real Obama?

New York talk show host Sam Greenfield discusses the progressive critique of Obama (1 of 3)

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Talk show hosts from across the United States met in New York last weekend to attend the “New Media Seminar.” The event is ripe with informed opinion from political commentators, pundits and experts on American politics. The Real News Network's Senior Editor Paul Jay met with New Jersey talk show host Sam Greenfield to discuss his take on recent developments in the Democratic primaries.

Tags: obama, sam, greenfield, video