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Election Directions

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:39:21 GMT

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Are the Bushies trying to retain control after January 20th?

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:25:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More:

"Noting that Bill Clinton also ordered up a transition council on Nov. 27, 2000, Light called his "similar but without all the bells and whistles." Among other things, the Bush executive order could keep agencies busy preparing briefing materials and a Transition Directory to include "federal publications and other materials that provide information on each executive department and agency."

Cynics might wonder if the Bush team wants to keep its hands in before the order expires on Feb. 20, 2009, one month after the new president takes office.

Whatever the motives, said Light, one of the presidential candidates will need the help more than the other. "McCain has done almost nothing about the transition," he said, except to criticize Obama for saying in mid-summer that he was appointing a team to begin contingency planning."

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Presidential transitions are always momentous. The pagentry is magnificent -- bands play, supporters cheer, Americans look forward in hope. Presidents often leave a note to their successor in the top drawer of the Oval Office desk.

Now President Bush has signed an executive order creating a Presidential Transition Coordinating Council to smooth the transition. He proposes to coordinate with both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain until the election, then work with the winner.

But Paul C. Light, a professor of public policy at New York University and a long-time student of the U.S. federal government bureaucracy, is concerned. In an interview, he raised a red flag about the council's possible impact:

The Bush administration had such a reputation for secrecy and self- promotion that I don’t know if they’ll use the Council and these guidelines to control the incoming administration.

State regulators thwarted by Bush Admin

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:40:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Feds over-ruled states' efforts to more tightly control renegade mortgage mills

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Some states, including North Carolina and Georgia, passed laws aimed at deterring rash loans only to have federal authorities undercut them. In Iowa and other states, mortgage mills arranged to be acquired by nationally regulated banks and in the process fended off more-assertive state supervision. In Ohio the story took a different twist: State lawmakers acting at the behest of lenders squelched an attempt by the Cleveland City Council to slow the subprime frenzy.

prescient state enforcers and legislators who tried to contain the greed and foolishness

were thwarted in many cases by Washington officials hostile to regulation and a financial industry adept at exploiting this ideology

The Bush Administration and many banks clung to what is known as "preemption."

when federal and state authority over business conflict, the feds prevail — even if it means little or no regulation

Federal officials

sided with lenders

Tags: economy, regulation.

Think before you vote..

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:05:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Un-rewritten history can clear away the slogans and buzz words. If we value our future we must not be fooled again.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

For the nitwits who vote for the man or woman they’d most like to have over for dinner, or hang out at a barbecue with, I suggest you take a look at how well your 401(k) is doing, or how easy it will be to meet the mortgage this month,

Voters in the George W. Bush era gave the Republican Party nearly complete control of the federal government. Now the financial markets are in turmoil, top government and corporate leaders are on the verge of panic and scholars are dusting off treatises that analyzed the causes of the Great Depression.

Mr. Bush was never viewed as a policy or intellectual heavyweight. But he seemed like a nicer guy to a lot of voters than Al Gore.

Voting has consequences.

The G.O.P. has done a great job masking the terrible consequences of much that it has stood for over the decades. Now the mask has slipped

North Korea is out of the 'axis of evil'

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:54:43 GMT

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Clip Source: news.sky.com

US President George Bush decided to go ahead with the move after Kim Jong Il's government gave assurances over its nuclear activities.

The move follows days of deliberations within Mr Bush's administration after a visit by US envoy Chris Hill to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, last week.

The drive to revive the talks comes after North Korea stepped up efforts to rebuild its nuclear facility at Yongbyon and banned UN monitors from the Soviet-era plant.

The US now expects North Korea to announce that it has resumed the process of scaling back its nuclear programme.

Meanwhile, Pyonyang released pictures of Mr Kim for the first time in nearly two months, showing him looking generally well despite reports he recently underwent brain surgery.

Wearing his trademark khaki jumpsuit and sunglasses, the leader was seen standing with uniformed soldiers with his arms folded or his hands behind his back.

It's Called Hubris

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:13:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON — George W. Bush began his presidency with the worst terrorist attack on American soil and he is ending it with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. In between, he confronted a hurricane that nearly wiped New Orleans off the map as his administration showed ineptitude in its response.

Now, as he spends his last months in office trying to avert a global economic collapse, Mr. Bush has been telling people privately that it’s a good thing he’s in charge.

Mr. Bush has always been confident of himself, even when the American public was not, and that has not changed. Just as he is convinced he did the right thing in Iraq, he is convinced he is doing the right thing on the economy — despite job approval ratings at historic lows and a presidential campaign in which both candidates have used him as kind of a battering ram.

Bush Denounces 'Dungeon' of Cuba

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:52:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You'd think Bush was speaking of his own dictatorial reign, eh? "Our great nation that believes in human rights and human dignity, blah, blah, blah..." Hahahaha! What a joke! Tell that to the people of Iraq or Afghanistan or the people wasting away in Gitmo! I'd bet Castro's popularity ratings are higher than yours!

Bush, why don't you just STFU? Fix your own country, who is "being repressed by a handful of elites" first, before trying to impose your twisted version of "freedom", on everyone else!

Lift the embargo. The age of the red scare is dead and gone. It's the red, white and blue scare, most of the world is concerned about these days...SIR!

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Bush denounces 'dungeon' of Cuba

Calling Cuba a "dungeon" off US shores, US President George W. Bush said Friday that the US economic embargo would remain in place until Havana fully embraces democratic reforms.

"It's so sad that right off the shores of our great nation that believes in human rights and human dignity exists this dungeon. But someday Cuba will be free," Bush told an audience of Cuban-Americans.

Bush has said the US embargo in place since 1962 must only be lifted after Cuba allows unfettered freedom of speech, frees political prisoners, and holds free and fair elections.

"Until then we won't change, because our message is to the Cuban people, you're being repressed by a handful of elites that are holding back your great potential," he said Friday.

the Castro people are only interested in themselves and their power, and not to the benefit and welfare of the Cuban people," said the US president.

Cuba

urged Washington

to open private lines of credit for food import

And Bush

rejected.

Where Were You When You Realized George Bush Was a Liar?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:38:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I don't know, some people's loyalty to the president reminds me of some people's loyalty to a king. Since the pres is not a king it sometimes boggles my mind. When they do discover he is a liar and how much he has lied and for what purposes, I wonder if they remember that day - kind of like remembering where you were when you learn that Kennedy was shot or where you were when 911 happened. If you had such an experience why not write about it. It's an interesting and informative read.

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I remember when I realized George W. Bush was a liar. It was November 8, 2006—the day after the mid-term elections. It had taken me six years to admit the truth. A week earlier, Bush had said in no uncertain terms that Donald Rumsfeld would stay on until the end of Bush’s presidency. “Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them.” The day after the election, Rumsfeld was gone. When asked about the turn-around, the President said:

Mr. Bush

"atrocious economic policies" of Bush

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:11:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: USA owes 1 trillion to China !

The 'Big Mouth' !!

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

the "atrocious economic policies" of the Bush administration had caused the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Former President Jimmy Carter said on Friday

"profligate spending," massive borrowing and dramatic tax cuts since President George W. Bush took office in 2001 were behind the market turmoil and economic crisis

Eight years ago, the United States had a budget surplus, low inflation and a stable, strong economy

Carter said he was astonished that the United States now owed China "in the neighborhood of $1 trillion."

Deregulation and what he called a withdrawal of supervision of Wall Street had encouraged irresponsible elements in the U.S. financial system, enabling banks to borrow 30 times their value.

SUPREME COURT AGAINST CONTESTING FEDS RULES

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:39:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It would prevent environmental groups from filing against Federal Rulings

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Supreme Court May Bar Groups From Contesting Federal Rules

WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to a legal position held by the Bush administration that would limit environmentalists and other public interest groups from challenging federal regulations.

The case centers on a dispute over rules imposed by the U.S. Forest Service, but legal experts contend the court's ultimate decision could have far-reaching impacts and make it nearly impossible for many individuals and third parties to contest rules enacted by federal agencies.

The origins of the case lie in regulations enacted by the Bush administration in 2003 that limited some federal timber sales and logging projects from the agency's usual notice, comment and appeal procedures.

The 2003 Forest Service rules affected timber projects of less than 250 acres and "forest thinning" projects of 1,000 acres or less.

U.S. district court sided with the environmental groups,

Reminding us that he's as trustworthy as Bush

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:25:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

John McCain's Respectful Campaign

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Tags: mccain, lies, smears, obama, lying pond scum

George W. Bush Has Hurt the United States More Than Bin Laden Ever Could Have.

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:45:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He has some definite points. We are definitely far worse off now then when Bush started.

Clip Source: journals.democraticunderground.com

George W. Bush Has Hurt the United States More Than Bin Laden Ever Could Have.

The most devastating weapon of mass destruction ever employed against the people of the United States of America has been George W. Bush. No enemy, foreign or domestic, has ever hurt our fair country more than this single man. None. Not ever.

Tags: bush, george bush, idiot, economy

Moscow calls for anti-U.S. alliance

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:31:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: While Russia has insisted it was not intending to supplant NATO, Mr Medvedev made it clear that the US-dominated alliance was partly responsible for the war in the Caucasus by its failure to rein in Georgian "aggression".

This is the result of the U.S. throwing its weight around the world for far too long. It is human nature that if one person is constantly directing policy onto everyone else then that person is going to be knocked down for being perceived as a bully.

The time has come for the U.S. to relax its role as self appointed world police and let other nations handle their own affairs or we will be “uninvited to the party”.

Hopefully, future U.S. presidents will bury this old school ‘might is right’ mentality that Bush/Cheney revitalized when they took office.

Clip Source: www.canberratimes.com.au

THE President of Russia has called on Europe's leaders to create a new world order that would minimise the role of the United States.

Mr Medvedev spoke of a Russia that was "absolutely not interested in confrontation", and outlined plans for a new security pact to ban the use of force in Europe.

Mr Medvedev sought to show that the US was at the root of all the world's problems. He blamed Washington's "economic egotism" for the world's financial woes and then accused the Bush Administration of taking Europe to the brink of a new cold war by pursuing a deliberately divisive foreign policy.

While he called for a cooling of the noxious rhetoric that had blighted East-West relations over the past two years, Mr Medvedev clearly laid the blame for the deterioration on the US, which he said was again viewing Russia through the prism of the Cold War. "Sovietology, like paranoia, is a very dangerous disease, and it is a pity that part of the US Administration still suffers from it," he said.

Tags: russia, u.s., foreign policy, cowboys, bush, cheney

Bush administration cuts birth control funding to Africa

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:13:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is more important than you might think.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Nicholas D. Kristof: Can this be pro-life?

The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world's poorest women in Africa.

Thus the paradox of a "pro-life" administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year - along with more women dying in childbirth.

The saga also spotlights a clear difference between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.

Obama supports UN-led efforts to promote family planning; McCain stands with President Bush in opposing certain crucial efforts to help women reduce unwanted pregnancies in Africa and Asia.

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